The loss and damage fund conversation was pushed by the G77 plus China group of developing countries. The group of countries is vulnerable to the impacts of climate disasters.
The success of the talks hinges on a fund to address loss and damage, a term used for irreparable destruction caused by climate change-fuelled disasters.
Children's Day 2022: Worldwide almost 1 billion children, almost half of the world’s children, reside in extremely high risk countries, according to UNICEF’s The Climate Crisis Is a Child Rights Crisis: Introducing the...
UN Climate summit was scheduled to conclude on Friday but went into overtime as negotiators pushed for an agreement on issues such as including mitigation, loss and damage (L&D) fund and adaptation.
The key concern is that it is difficult to scientifically assess the extent of damage caused solely due to climate change and even more ardous a task to calculate a fair compensation amount because losses and damages can be...
India pushed back the attempt with the support of like-minded developing countries, including China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan.
The success of the talks hinges on a separate loss and damage fund, the primary demand for COP27 from developing nations. The deal, however, is part of the larger agreement and has to be voted on by negotiators from nearly...
The UNFCCC said the plan includes 25 sector-specific "priority actions" under the Breakthrough Agenda to decarbonise power, transport and steel, scale up low-emission hydrogen production and accelerate the shift to...
The UAE and Indonesia launched the MAC on the sidelines of the UN climate summit COP27, being held in Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt from November 6 to 18. The...
Addressing the 27th COP27 summit on Monday, Sunak declared that it was time to act faster on climate change because it is the 'right thing to do'. But his...
With climate finance still scarce, Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said, 'climate adaptation in the form of early warning dissemination is key to...
Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said India has been strengthening end-to-end early warning systems for all hydro-meteorological hazards.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not travel to Egypt. The Indian delegation is being led by Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav, who will address the...
COP27: Apart from the fact that the annual target of $100 billion of climate finance is yet to be reached, understanding about what constitutes climate finance...
Union Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav has asserted that India is one of the few countries which have met the climate targets set in Paris in 2015.
Since May 29, 2022, protesters from environmental activist groups such as Just Stop Oil have either attached themselves to or flung substances on celebrated...
AEEE’s call for action seeks to promote reuse, reduce and recycle, lifestyle for the environment, digitalisation, and community engagement to reduce energy...
Being both a climate vulnerable as well as a high emitting country, experts say India occupies a unique position on the global climate policy negotiating table.
'No time is the time for war. But this time in particular is not the time for war. So I fully support Prime Minister Modi's view,' Gueterres underscored.
