Climate
How Climate Change is Altering Air Travel
Fred Pearce Rising tides, icy air, melting permafrost and air that is too hot for take-off are challenging aviation as the world warms. Phoenix […]
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Biodiversity
Restoring forests seen as vital to fighting climate change, extreme poverty
Hugh Biggar In the face of a changing climate and related mass migration and social instability, international experts are now viewing forests and tree […]
Aid
Climate finance and sustainable development go hand-in-hand
To ensure the proper delivery of climate funds, strictly following the top-down approach is required for effective coordination among policy-makers and implementers The Paris […]
Climate
China commits to Arctic protections but development threats loom
Chen Jiliang Can China’s new Arctic policy protect the region’s delicate ecology? Chen Jiliang takes a look China has long been involved in Arctic affairs and […]
Aid
Environment and climate change gets short shrift in India’s budget
Soumya Sarkar, Juhi Chaudhary & Sapna Gopal Allocations for renewable energy and environment in India’s federal budget have left both the clean energy sector […]
Climate
Methane from Indian livestock adds to global warming
S. Singh Methane produced by India’s livestock population, considered the world’s largest, can significantly raise global temperatures, says a new study designed to help predict climate change linked […]
Climate
2017: the year in extreme weather
Andrew King Overall 2017 will be the warmest non-El Niño year on record globally, and over the past 12 months we have seen plenty […]
Cities
Cities need to invest in living infrastructures to be climate resilient
It is being increasingly admitted that cities need to have living infrastructure in order to be able to deliver social, environmental and economic services […]
Aid
COP23 and Historical Responsibility in Climate Finance
It was noted that rich countries have not yet delivered the promised $100bn per year in climate finance by 2020 agreed in 2009 at […]
Sustainable Business
Philippines initiates world’s first human rights investigation into corporate responsibility for climate change
Companies, including ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Suncor and Repsol, are being asked to explain their role in making climate change worse. The world’s […]
Biodiversity
As the Chitra turns saline, mangroves appear
Kamran Reza Chowdhury Salinisation of freshwater near Sundarbans leading to mangrove forests and spelling the end of an ecosystem that was heavy with sweet […]
Climate
What are the action points from COP 23?
Here is the new wave of climate action that has been announced during COP23 from countries, cities, states, regions, business and civil society. The […]
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