Jairam Ramesh, India’s environment minister from May 2009 to July 2011, recalls the complex negotiations at two key climate conferences that led the way to the Paris Agreement
I became India’s Minister of Environment and Forests in May 2009 with instructions from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to change both the substance and style of India’s climate diplomacy…Read More
Millions of people worldwide are being displaced by natural disasters triggered partially by climate change, and the international community is finally taking steps to mitigate the suffering
This year is set to be a milestone in the arduous journey of climate migrants. The global community is beginning to fathom the challenges of people displaced by floods and sea level rise…Read More
Donald Trump’s decision to pull the US out of the Paris climate agreement has done little to halt decarbonisation of the global economy, says former UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres
A year after President Donald Trump said he will pull the US out from the Paris Agreement, the economic benefits of decarbonisation outweighs the political dimensions of the decision…Read More
International climate negotiations in Bonn that concluded last week showed that implementing the Paris Agreement goals is still an uphill task
In the early 1990s, when I was in school, climate negotiators around the world were finalising the text of the UN Climate Change Convention. After I completed my higher studies in environmental sciences and while working in…Read More
Combating climate change needs money that is only available in global bond and equity markets, which are heavily invested in fossil fuels; public finances are needed to make them change direction
Trillions of dollars. That is what India said it needed to deal with climate change in 2015, and it is only one of – though one of the biggest – the developing countries. Where will this come from?…Read more
Insurance initiatives for those vulnerable to climate change impacts is a move in the right direction, but more needs to done to account for the loss and damage suffered by communities that have done little to add to global warming
Two major global insurance initiatives were launched at the Bonn climate summit that aim to provide insurance to hundreds of millions of…Read more
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