Author: Ben Henley

Air quality over most of India remains very poor as satellite images from NASA show smoke from farm stubble burning and industrial pollution is still trapped in the lower atmosphere

Many high greenhouse gas emitting countries, including India and China, have reduced emissions intensity, but governments need to take stronger action to restrain global warming

Even six years after the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage was established, there is little hope for getting funding for climate disasters

India has called upon sunshine-abundant nations to join the International Solar Alliance in larger numbers to hasten the global energy transition from fossil fuels

The Paris climate pact will come into effect on January 1, but probably without an agreement on starting a new market to trade greenhouse gas emissions

The streets of Madrid were full of people protesting on behalf of change and their children's future, as activist Greta Thunberg arrived at the city hosting the UN climate summit

Putting together the many climate studies published in 2019, scientists tell the UN climate summit in Mardrid that the world is very close to tipping points

Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Karnataka are poised to meet their energy requirements from renewable and non-coal sources, following in the footsteps of Gujarat and Chhattisgarh

Developing countries that reduced greenhouse emissions are told that the carbon certificates they had got in return are now worthless paper

India’s vulnerability to extreme weather events remains among the highest in the world, killing thousands every year and causing economic losses counted in billions