BUSINESS
COP28: Why India stayed away from green energy pledge on coal issue
The phasing down of coal compelled India not to endorse it despite promoting exactly the same renewables goal at the G20 summit.
ENVIRONMENT
COP28: The long road of climate negotiations from Rio to Dubai
An interactive timeline chronicling the major milestones in the history of climate negotiations
ENVIRONMENT
COP28: Narendra Modi offers to host 2028 climate summit in India, urges stronger action
Strengthening India’s standing as a global climate leader, Prime Minister offered to host the 2028 UN climate summit in the country while pitching for stronger collective action to contain the climate crisis
BUSINESS
COP28: Climate negotiators head to Dubai as global temperatures breach critical levels
Negotiations at the annual UN summit in the United Arab Emirates will hinge on ways to mobilise finance to tackle the climate emergency, but talks are expected to be contentious on issues like phasing out planet-warming fossil fuels.
ENVIRONMENT
Rich countries agree to establish loss and damage fund at UN climate summit
In a breakthrough in global climate negotiations, wealthy nations have finally agreed to set up a fund to pay damages to vulnerable countries for loss and damage due to climate change, but little progress was made on other critical issues, including a faster phase-out of all fossil fuels
COMMODITIES
India’s developing green hydrogen ecosystem could help in global decarbonisation
Business leaders have responded to India’s policy initiatives on green hydrogen with huge investments to build an ecosystem that could hasten the process of deep decarbonisation
BUSINESS
COP27 | India to push for climate finance as rich countries fail to keep promise
A deal to discuss climate compensation is a good start to COP27 but India is expected to drive a hard bargain as developed countries haven’t provided the promised funds, while the World Meteorological Organization says the planet is now 1.15 degrees warmer
WORLD
COP27 | Climate finance to rule the agenda at the UN summit in Egypt
Emerging and poor economies are also expected to highlight the loss and damage due to climate change, and demand financial resources to mitigate disasters
ENVIRONMENT
Climate change is real and here: Extreme heat shrivels up India’s wheat harvest
The hottest March in 122 years has lowered wheat harvest by at least 15-20 percent, say farmers in Uttar Pradesh; the heat stress has hurt wheat output in Punjab and Haryana, too
