Climate Finance

World leaders convened in Johannesburg on Saturday as the G20 Leaders’ Summit opened with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa pledging to uphold the bloc’s integrity and ensure that the development priorities of Africa and the broader…
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India on Monday pressed developed countries to advance their net-zero timelines, honour their Paris Agreement commitments, and scale up concessional climate finance for developing nations. Delivering India’s national statement at the…
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Completely ignoring the demands of the developing nations for mobilisation of at least 1.3 trillion dollars a year in climate finance, the developed countries managed to force an agreement at the COP29 meeting in Baku, promising to put…
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As the world gears up for COP29, pre-conference discussions have already spotlighted a critical issue—climate finance. In a recent roundtable titled "The Road Ahead: Building on Global South Strengths at COP29 & G20," organised by New…
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With climate finance still scarce, climate adaptation in the form of early warning dissemination is key to safeguarding lives and livelihoods from cascading natural hazards causing substantial losses around the world, Union Environment…
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Maintaining that the 27th edition of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change should be the “COP of action”, Union Environment, Forests and Climate Change Minister Bhupender Yadav on Thursday said…
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The report released last week by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body of scientists mandated by the UN to track climate change, is particularly scathing about the impact of global warming that the world will experience in…
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India flagged that developed countries are trying to renegotiate who or which countries will provide resources for climate change mitigation, and how often nationally determined contributions (NDCs) will be updated, violating principles of…
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Efforts by German parties to form a new government to succeed Angela Merkel’s coalition have run into hurdles, throwing their ambitious timetable to elect a new chancellor early next month into doubt. Following the historic loss suffered…
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