Amitabh Sinha

The BJP's strategic groundwork has paid off, significantly impacting the MVA's Muslim-Dalit-Maratha vote bank and uniting Maharashtra behind the BJP-led Mahayuti.

The groups of small island states and least developed countries said this in no way reflected their needs and decided to walk out of the meeting. More backroom negotiations were called for. The talks, scheduled to end on Friday, is headed into Sunday.

The disappointing deal on climate finance at COP29 could be the beginning of the unravelling of climate talks. This is not a surprise as developed nations have been taking apart the climate system over the years

The study says that while greater renewable integration in power generation would improve the climate benefits of EVs in due course, government intervention is needed to ensure a shift towards day-time charging of EVs in the short term.

The case is expected to have significant implications for the increasing number of climate-related lawsuits being filed everywhere. It could potentially also influence the negotiations at the annual climate talks

India's submission came during the hearings of the ICJ, the judicial arm of UN, in a case that seeks its advisory opinion on the obligations of countries on climate change, and the legal consequences of these obligations.

The main goal of the Paris Agreement — holding global annual average temperatures within 1.5 degree Celsius of pre-industrial averages, two degrees Celsius in the worst case scenario — seems more distant than ever.

The report, the first of its kind looking at the interconnections between these multiple crises, has been produced by Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), a global group of scientific experts

The new target for 2035 has been disclosed in the updated Nationally Determined Contribution, or NDC, that the US submitted to the UN Climate Change on Thursday night

The hope of keeping global warming under the 1.5 degree Celsius limit is all but dead. The kind of emissions cuts required to keep this goal alive is unlikely to be achieved. But this is not the end of the world.