COP 28

It’s been about a month since the gavel came down on COP28 in Dubai, but it’s already time to start looking ahead to COP29. The 28th United Nations climate conference took place in a Middle Eastern petrostate last year; this year’s summit…
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Another climate change COP has come and gone. As has become quite common by now, a complex set of intergovernmental negotiations are ultimately reduced to a fight over one particular issue. At the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai, UAE…
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One of the most notable points of contention at the COP28 summit, hosted this year by the United Arab Emirates, was around language. The language chosen to describe the future of fossil fuels. Midway through negotiations, the word ‘phase…
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The issue of the impact of climate change on agriculture was raised at the recent COP28 conference held in Dubai and all nations are working on it, Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Bhupender Yadav told the Rajya Sabha on…
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Naysayers have once again got their predictions wrong on Gulf countries playing host to international events. Like neighbouring Qatar did during the FIFA World Cup in 2022, the UAE hosted with elan the UN’s Climate Change Conference summit…
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The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai brought global attention to the need for urgent action against global warming, with India positioning itself as a leader of the Global South. Climate justice has been…
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November 17 was no ordinary day. On this day, the Earth’s average surface temperature was two-degree Celsius higher than the pre-industrial average for the first time, providing more evidence of a fast build-up of greenhouse gases in the…
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The 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) concluded a day late on December 13. The battle over words and phrases was won, but not the war on climate change. This emerges starkly from…
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After COP28’s landmark call for the world to move away from fossil fuels, experts say the pressure is on to fast-track — and fund — the global energy transition. The agreement was a compromise wrestled out of countries with sharply…
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The report from the UN’s environmental wing, UNEP, also revealed that despite decades of calls for ending finance flows towards sectors that harm some of humanity’s most valuable assets, those investments currently account for a whopping 7…
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