A mixed bag Article The Glasgow climate conference has delivered enough to keep the hope alive for meeting the 1.5°C climate goal. By Chandra Bhushan
Have realistic expectations from COP26 Article A great hype has been created around the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) at Glasgow. John Kerry, the US climate Czar, has repeatedly called the meeting the world’s “last best chance” to avoid climate hara-kiri. Similar sentiment has been expressed by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. More than 100 world leaders attended this climate gala in the first week, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Joe Biden. By Chandra Bhushan
Planning ‘just’ energy transition Article On the first day of the Glasgow climate conference – COP26 – the biggest announcement came from India. Ending speculations on whether India ‘will’ or ‘can’ make a net-zero pledge, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the country will reach net-zero emissions by 2070. How ambitious are these targets? By Chandra Bhushan
Unpacking finance for Loss and Damage Dossier Differentiating finance types, developing countries’ needs and the lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic
The Hindu: India to press for equity at Paris India’s strategy at the Paris Climate Change summit will be to work with emerging economies and press the developed world to concede that responsibility for cutting carbon emissions after 2020 cannot be shared equally by rich and poor nations.
Environment Minister Javadekar: No “unnatural restriction on natural growth” In an interview a month before the COP, Prakash Javadekar, India’s minister for the environment, stands his ground on India’s right to develop, and to emit: “If someone is putting restrictions on India or any developing country it is unacceptable.”
India on the way to COP21: Growing forests in the air Two independent experts from the Centre for Policy Research-Namati Environment Justice Program (New Delhi) explain one of the critical issues within the INDCs.
