Climate Change

Another climate change COP has come and gone. As has become quite common by now, a complex set of intergovernmental negotiations are ultimately reduced to a fight over one particular issue. At the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai, UAE…
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2023 was reported as the hottest year so far in recorded history. Average temperature for the year was 15.1°C, which was 1.46°C above the pre-industrial average – highlighting the continuing risks from global warming and climate change.…
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In the week since the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) came to an end, a cyclone slammed into Australia, torrential rains pelted the United States of America and a punishing drought continued to decimate crops in Zimbabwe. These…
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A critical step in addressing the climate crisis comes in the form of climate finance that enables climate action in the form of adaptation and mitigation efforts. At the recently concluded UN Climate Change Conference (COP28), it was…
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The 28th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), in Dubai, was notable in terms of stopping the lackadaisical approach of the international community to the…
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One of the most notable points of contention at the COP28 summit, hosted this year by the United Arab Emirates, was around language. The language chosen to describe the future of fossil fuels. Midway through negotiations, the word ‘phase…
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Extreme weather events, including hurricanes, wildfires, and dangerous heat, have increased not only in frequency, but also in intensity over the past few decades — and are predicted only to get worse. For some Americans, this has prompted…
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At the recent COP28, NASA and IBM announced that an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool called watsonx.ai would be available on the open-source AI platform Hugging Space. Watsonx.ai will help users monitor the Earth from space, measuring…
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The issue of the impact of climate change on agriculture was raised at the recent COP28 conference held in Dubai and all nations are working on it, Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Bhupender Yadav told the Rajya Sabha on…
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Naysayers have once again got their predictions wrong on Gulf countries playing host to international events. Like neighbouring Qatar did during the FIFA World Cup in 2022, the UAE hosted with elan the UN’s Climate Change Conference summit…
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