COP26 climate change conference: Vinisha Umashankar had designed a solar-powered ironing cart with the potential to improve air quality across India.

While India has been one of the earliest and key signatories of multiple global environmental agreements, it has given a wide berth to three major initiatives. Officials tell Moneycontrol why that's been the case.

A key issue of contention, New Delhi has pushed for policies protecting interests of small and marginal farmers. Officials say this proposal is gaining traction before the once-in-two-years Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization later this…

Focus on funds, infrastructure, regulations, R&D, and innovation are crucial to deal with the climate challenge

The richest 10 percent of the global population emits nearly 48 percent of global emissions in 2019, the top 1 percent emits 17 percent of the total, whereas the poorest half of the global population emits 12 percent of global emissions

Sources say that it will also not begin the mechanism to push out cash until at least end 2022, under optimal conditions.

With the measures needed to combat climate change having grown exponentially, nations have been locked in negotiations for the past few days, fighting over key commitments.

The young activist, who works for Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg’s organisation ‘Fridays For Future’, was supposed to be in Glasgow along with three other members, to attend the prestigious United Nations climate conference and share the stage…

COP26: Alok Sharma, the conference chairman, was visibly emotional before banging down his gavel in relief to signal that there were no vetoes from the almost 200 national delegations present in Glasgow, ranging from coal- and gas-fuelled superpowers to oil…

Rich countries, including the United States, Canada, Japan, and much of western Europe, account for just 12 percent of the global population today but are responsible for 50 percent of all the planet-warming greenhouse gases released from fossil fuels and…

From air pollution to inadequate waste management, these are some of the biggest environmental issues facing India and the world today. Plus, elevator pitches for solutions to these problems.

Despite taking several multilateral steps to battle climate change, major world powers could not agree on a stricter agreement on limiting carbon emissions at Glasgow.

Officials say there was no option available to maintain India’s strategic and economic interests.

The COP in Warsaw appeared doomed from the start, almost collapsed midway, and nearly broke up in acrimony towards the end. The conference was rescued from total failure by Burhan Gafoor and TS Tirumurti with no small help from a third Tamilian, Vivian Balakrishnan 

Despite taking several multilateral steps to battle climate change, major world powers could not agree on a stricter agreement on limiting carbon emissions at Glasgow.

In the second such interaction with industry representatives, PM Modi emphasised his ambition to see Indian industries among the top five of the world in every sector.

One way to boost LNG use is to borrow a page from the EV playbook and incentivise a conducive environment for the increased use of cleaner equipment powered by LNG