Climate Change

Developed countries need to scale up their climate finance commitments to enable developing countries to transition and adapt to climate change. Developing countries need to meet them halfway by being more ambitious about mitigation targets.

The decision of moving away from fossil fuels, and operationalisation of the loss and damage fund are major wins from COP28.

The country’s transition rate to clean cooking fuel has to be tripled to meet SDG 7 goals and mitigate health and climate change.

The transformative potential of decarbonisation is that it can meet socio-economic goals better than current development pathways.

My core concern here is to wrestle with the idea of ‘nature’ and with the ‘ways in which we relate to it’. A nature that is both in us as humans, and the many nature(s), animate and non-animate, outside of us. Thus it seems possible to think of nature in singular and plural terms. I will argue that in order to combat the existential threats we face, as a society and as a planet; it is time to go back in some ways and go forward in others.

Climate change and inequality are deeply intertwined. Globally, it poses a threat to women and girls' lives, livelihoods, health, safety, and security. The issue of gender inequality is often addressed by portraying women as mere victims without acknowledging their contributions as climate actors.

From New Delhi to Bangkok to Seoul, Asia is facing the world’s most serious air pollution catastrophe.  Experts say this poor air quality becomes fatal with the onset of heat waves and drought from climate change, but citizens are coming up with their own solutions to tackle the dirty air.