Page 6 - Climate Change Talks

UN warns world set for 2.7C rise on today's emissions pledges

COP26 climate talks could be the last chance to curb warming

COP26 summit: India's climate destiny depends upon negotiations in Glasgow

The country's climate negotiators at Glasgow will have to strike a balance between development needs and global pressures to do more

Queen Elizabeth II back at work with light duties, won't attend COP26

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II carried out her first engagements on Tuesday since staying overnight in hospital last week

India, UK, Australia to launch IRIS at COP26

Island countries to work towards creating infrastructure that can withstand disasters

Leak of documents reveals nations lobbying to change key climate report

Countries asking UN to play down the need to move rapidly away from fossil fuels

Climate financing continues to be an area of worry, says Sitharaman

India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman here said climate financing continues to be an area of worry as she flagged concerns over funding mechanism and technology transfer

'It's really irritating...,' UK Queen forays into world climate politics

The queen's rare public foray into big power climate politics came as worries grew that Chinese President Xi Jinping, leader of world's largest greenhouse gas emitter, would not attend October summit

White House plans to address economic risk of climate change

The actions being recommended by the Biden administration reflect a significant shift in the broader discussion about climate change

How a $100 bn hurdle threatens to undermine a global climate breakthrough

That's the amount in annual contributions promised more than a decade ago by developed nations to help less well-off nations cut planet-warming emissions and adapt to climate change

Developed nations must enact laws for zero-emission goal by 2030: India

Developed countries must take measures and legislate for net-zero emissions by the current decade itself, India demanded on Friday.

Climate change: England must 'adapt or die,' govt agency warns

England will be hit hard by floods like those that devastated Germany this summer if the country does not improve its defence against more extreme weather brought by climate change

WHO calls for climate action to assure sustained recovery from Covid-19

The World Health Organisation has said that countries must set ambitious national climate commitments if they are to sustain a healthy and green recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic

Contentious climate debate: Should rich nations pay for damage done?

Annual climate negotiations tend to focus on what countries can do to slow global warming by cutting emissions, a task that benefits rich and poor countries alike

Climate truth-tellers

For long, climate change deniers rejected these models as unverifiable and results of questionable inputs

India houses half of all people vulnerable to life-threatening heat

The researchers found that more than half the people on Earth who face life-threatening heat stress caused by climate change live in India

BS Views of the Week: Looking beyond net-zero, and making NMP a success

Debt for climate and green power

India's climate targets are not conditional, but its negotiating position has been that finance and technology must be made available to developing countries

UN climate talks: Faint progress on money, none on pollution

Opening pocketbooks wider to fight climate change? That's looking slightly more doable. Closing more smokestacks for the same goal? Not yet sold

UN to world leaders: To curtail warming, you must put more efforts

Pressure keeps building on increasingly anxious world leaders to ratchet up efforts to fight climate change

India and US to launch Climate Action and Finance Mobilisation Dialogue

America's Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry would travel to India next week, during which the two countries would launch the Climate Action and Finance Mobilisation Dialogue