Climate Change

The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai brought global attention to the need for urgent action against global warming, with India positioning itself as a leader of the Global South. Climate justice has been…
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Recent multilateral events, including the COP28 at Dubai, have underscored the imperative to transition towards renewable energy for achieving net-zero emissions. The call to triple renewable energy has been highlighted by both the COP…
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November 17 was no ordinary day. On this day, the Earth’s average surface temperature was two-degree Celsius higher than the pre-industrial average for the first time, providing more evidence of a fast build-up of greenhouse gases in the…
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The 2023 summer was the warmest on record in the Arctic, which, due to climate change, has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe since 1979. Overall, the past year was the sixth-warmest year the Arctic had experienced since…
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The 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) concluded a day late on December 13. The battle over words and phrases was won, but not the war on climate change. This emerges starkly from…
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After COP28’s landmark call for the world to move away from fossil fuels, experts say the pressure is on to fast-track — and fund — the global energy transition. The agreement was a compromise wrestled out of countries with sharply…
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Nations at the UN climate summit have for the first time taken explicit aim at the use of fossil fuels. The talks in Dubai came close to collapse but in a dramatic turn-around, nations agreed to "transition away" from coal, oil and gas.…
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Climate talks at the COP28 summit in Dubai were likely to run into overtime on Tuesday after a draft global stocktake text late on Monday night angered groups of developed countries, EU and island nations that insisted on a commitment for…
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Licypriya Kangujam, 12-year-old climate activist from Manipur, dashed on to the stage at the United Nations Climate Conference 2023 (COP28) in Dubai, today. She bolted onto the stage holding a sign above her head that read, "End fossil…
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The report from the UN’s environmental wing, UNEP, also revealed that despite decades of calls for ending finance flows towards sectors that harm some of humanity’s most valuable assets, those investments currently account for a whopping 7…
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