Media Billionaire and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s philanthropy arm set to fund the US’s contribution to the U.N. climate body’s budget after Donald Trump withdrew American contribution to the Paris climate agreement, reported Reuters.
2 min read24 Jan 2025DPI is under discussion across the world, with India’s UPI held up as an example of its value. While DPI has enormous benefits, its definition needs clarity. We also need clear-cut measures to prevent its misuse.
3 min read13 Jan 2025The New Year has brought a grim reminder from New Orleans of terror as a threat, even as war rages in West Asia, Europe and elsewhere. India must push for UN reforms and a permanent seat at the high table on the back of global principles with world peace as the aim.
3 min read3 Jan 2025Development agencies fund green projects when people need jobs, food and energy.
4 min read3 Dec 2024The Baku summit on climate change had a depressing end. We’re left in a situation where fossil fuel reliance is less likely to go down, unless rich countries do what’s required to help poor countries adopt clean energy and decarbonize their economies.
3 min read2 Dec 2024The meeting between 175 parties was marked by a high degree of disagreement over whether the treaty should address the entire lifecycle of plastics and provide financial support from developed nations to aid developing countries in transitioning away from plastics.
4 min read1 Dec 2024Of the 43,000-plus killed so far in Israeli military action, over two-thirds are women and children. Israel’s campaign must end but the US has again vetoed a UN Security Council call for a ceasefire. Will the US under Trump be any different?
1 min read22 Nov 2024The Mitigation Work Programme - created at the COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh in 2022 - is a mechanism set up by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to help the parties scale up their mitigation targets and implementation to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
1 min read17 Nov 2024One ray of hope at CoP-29 is that ground rules for a global carbon market were ratified. Another is news that UNFCCC parties have agreed to work out a new climate financing goal. And corporate participation had been high too.
4 min read17 Nov 2024Countries and companies meeting in Cali face tough questions over funding for biodiversity, indigenous rights and who pays for nature’s genetic bounty.
4 min read22 Oct 2024The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared