"paris-agreement"

India’s updated NDCs, aiming for 60% non-fossil power capacity by 2035 and deeper emissions cuts, boost clean energy ambition, but challenges remain steep

The US President’s exit from 66 international organisations, including the UNFCCC, marks a major setback for global climate action and undermines America’s leadership in clean energy

Declassified US diplomatic records reveal how India played a central role in shaping the Paris climate agreement, ensuring a non-binding framework that preserved development space while enabling its entry into a universal global climate regim

Bold statements will not save people from the catastrophic impact of climate change; only real action — through financial and technological support — can

At the CoP30 summit in Brazil, India reaffirmed its commitment to equitable climate action and urged developed nations to accelerate emission cuts. The country highlighted progress in renewables, low-carbon growth, and called for fair climate finance and technology access

November marks another milestone in global warming, recording a temperature 1.62 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels

Will the Baku summit live up to its commitment to achieving climate justice and equity through climate finance?

News of a likely second year of record heat comes a day after Republican Donald Trump, who called climate change a "hoax" and promised to boost oil drilling and production

As we confront the stark reality of a rapidly changing climate and climate-induced disasters, the role of COP 28 remains more crucial than ever

One estimate says that meeting the Paris Agreement targets could reduce the price of oil to $10 a barrel by 2050

Doubling the rate of energy efficiency improvements from 2.2 per cent to over 4 per cent annually across sectors by 2030 is also among the possible elements listed in the UN report for discussion at COP28.

It also stresses the importance of halting deforestation, reducing non-CO2 emissions, and implementing supply- and demand-side measures.

A comprehensive database will help us understand the impacts of urban forestry in the country

The signals emerging from the global climate summit in Egypt are quite disappointing. There is continued wrangling among the nations on the strategy to tide over the climate crisis. After two weeks of intense negotiations among 190 nations at the 27th United Nations Climate Summit — COP27—, the UN came up with the first draft […]

The clock is ticking away as the climate catastrophe appears imminent. With the rich nations failing to honour their funding commitments in climate change mitigation, the crisis is deepening by the day. In the ongoing global climate summit—COP27—at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, India has rightly put the onus on wealthy nations to substantially enhance the […]

E-commerce giant Amazon has announced that it will invest more than one billion euros to further electrify its transportation fleet across Europe over the next five years.

A massive initiative to transition to clean energy is required for India to meet the ambitious target of achieving net zero emissions by 2070. The timeline, unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the United Nations climate change conference—COP26 (Conference of the Parties) — at Scotland’s Glasgow, came as a surprise to many because India […]

The Treaty aims to be a complementary mechanism to the Paris Agreement by directly addressing the fossil fuel industry and putting the just transition at its core

We need to practise what has been passed down and revere nature to fight climate change

The goals need to be reframed and redefined in view of the grave implications of climate change