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Belem Action Plan for Health and Climate Adaptation launched: $300 mn committed for health impacts of climate at COP30

November 15, 2025 03:36 IST

Adaptation finance crucial to strengthen health in the face of life-threatening climate conditions

Ethiopia to host COP32 in 2032, next year’s host still undecided as Australia, Türkiye battle it out

November 13, 2025 03:32 IST

The host country of COP31 next year is still undecided, with both Australia and Turkiye persisting with their candidature.

Agenda fight averted at COP30, for now

November 11, 2025 11:07 IST

Brazil proposed to hold informal backroom consultations on these discussion points to narrow down the differences and hold a stocktake meeting on Wednesday after that to decide what needed to be done with these.

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Wealthy individuals fuel climate crisis through wealth more than consumption: Climate Inequality Report 2025

October 29, 2025 06:28 IST

Top 1% represent 15% of global consumption-based emissions, while they account for 41% of global emissions linked with private capital ownership

Human activity, rising industrial emissions, and the surge in wildfires were identified as major contributors to the record levels. (File)

After historic warm year , carbon-di-oxide levels in 2024 set new records: WMO

October 15, 2025 21:38 IST

According to the WMO’s annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, CO₂ levels saw their steepest-ever increase, rising by about 3.5 parts per million (ppm) between 2023 and 2024.

China accounts for almost a third of the world’s annual greenhouse gas emissions.

China announces its first emission cut targets, says will reduce greenhouses gases by 7 to 10%

September 26, 2025 02:53 IST

In contrast, India’s entire electricity installed capacity, from all sources, is currently less than 500 GW.

Earth’s average temperature for 2025-29 likely to exceed 1.5 deg C limit

May 28, 2025 11:40 IST

According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), India received above-normal rainfall during the monsoon season in four of the past five years.

How Mercedes’ latest material innovation pushes F1 sustainability forward

May 15, 2025 14:46 IST

“Collectively we are moving the dial on sustainable products and demonstrating that Formula 1 continues to be the fastest laboratory in the world,” said Toto Wolff.

Climate Change: The Black Cove Fire burns in the US

New study reveals how a 3 degree Celsius rise in temperature will make world considerably poorer

April 4, 2025 08:45 IST

The researchers found that the estimated damage to the global economy, in per capita GDP terms, from a 3 degree Celsius temperature rise by the end of the century increased from an average of 11 per cent in previous studies to 40 per cent.

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Let’s involve institutions like World Bank, IMF in climate decision-making: Brazil

March 21, 2025 05:51 IST

Conversation on climate needs to be mainstreamed in other multilateral forums, says COP30 president-designate Andre Aranha Correa do Lago

COP30 host Brazil hopes for climate ‘turnaround’

March 12, 2025 07:11 IST

A veteran climate negotiator and former Brazilian ambassador to India, Correa do Lago emphasised the urgency of proactive change.

Doors open for US to return to Paris Agreement: UN Climate Change chief Simon Stiell

February 20, 2025 02:26 IST

UN Climate Change chief Simon Stiell said the disintegration of the international climate change architecture would be a disaster for ‘every economy and population’.

Weak La Niña to last till April, says NOAA

February 18, 2025 12:27 IST

The ongoing La Niña emerged in January this year and multiple global weather agencies had forecast it to be a weak and short event.

Earth sets another heat record in January despite freezing US, expectations of cooler 2025

February 6, 2025 09:40 IST

January 2025 globally was 0.09 degrees Celsius warmer than January 2024, the previous hottest January, and was 1.75 C warmer than it was before industrial times.

Human-induced climate change worsened Los Angeles wildfires, says study

January 29, 2025 22:03 IST

Without a faster transition away from planet-heating fossil fuels, California will continue to get hotter, drier and more flammable, says Clair Barnes of the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London.

Millions across US brace for plummeting temperatures and winter storms

January 20, 2025 17:18 IST

Sunday snowfall was just the start of a chaotic week of weather.

2024 was hottest year ever, breached 1.5 degree Celsius warming threshold

January 11, 2025 06:51 IST

Last year's global average temperature easily passed 2023's record heat and kept pushing even higher.

Madhav Gadgil interview: ‘The idea that coal is essential for economic development needs to be examined’

December 21, 2024 13:02 IST

Madhav Gadgil, who was named one of the six ‘Champions of the Earth’ for 2024 by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), talks about the ecological crisis in India, climate change, and misconceptions about his 2011 report on the Western Ghats.

COP29: As deadline looms, nations, blocs reject draft negotiating text

November 22, 2024 08:06 IST

Several countries, including India and Saudi Arabia, objected to references being made to one particular paragraph in GST which had asked all countries to transition away from fossil fuels, triple renewable energy by 2030, reduce emissions of non-CO2 gases including methane, and phase-down coal, among other things.

Rio omits fossil fuel phase-out mention, Baku feels the pinch

November 20, 2024 02:28 IST

That could undo a very significant, though symbolic, victory that was achieved in Dubai at last year’s climate conference.

Not much help from G20, COP29 gets back to resolving finance deadlock

November 20, 2024 02:16 IST

The COP29 meeting here is trying to finalise a comprehensive agreement on climate finance to enable greater flows of money for climate action.

New climate change report warns of rising floods, droughts, and threats to India’s food security

November 17, 2024 19:14 IST

The report projects that by 2057, India’s annual maximum temperature will rise by 1.5°C under the moderate emissions scenario, with this increase occurring a decade earlier under the high-emissions pathway.

Freeze in finance deal, COP29 looks to G20 in Brazil for help

November 17, 2024 08:27 IST

Countries in Baku are trying to negotiate an agreement — New Cumulative Quantitative Goal or NCQG on climate finance — that will mobilise at least one trillion USD every year for climate action around the world.

Only 16% of past carbon credits represented actual emission cuts: Study

November 17, 2024 02:33 IST

The study published in Nature journal looked at projects that together generated carbon credits worth one billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent. Under the Paris Agreement, more robust carbon trade mechanisms are being created, with some progress expected to happen at the ongoing COP29 meeting in Baku.

Guohua Power Station, a coal-fired power plant, operates in Dingzhou, Baoding, in the northern China's Hebei province, Nov. 10, 2023. (AP)

In 6 years, China must reduce carbon emissions by at least 66%: Study

November 16, 2024 11:08 IST

The analysis, by Carbon Action Tracker (CAT), means that the 1.5 degree Celsius global climate target would be missed if China did not cut down its emissions.