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Civil societies campaign for climate finance goals at COP30. Image © UN Climate Change - Kiara Worth via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Brazil climate summit confronts gap between finance goals and reality

Soumya Sarkar 18 Nov 2025
On November 16, activists attend the People's Summit Audience at the Federal University of Pará at COP30. Image by Alex Ferro/COP30.

Urgency grows at midpoint of Belém climate summit as intent still outpaces action

Soumya Sarkar 17 Nov 2025

What is non-economic loss and damage? [Explainer]

Priyanka Shankar 20 Oct 2025

Loss and damage funding languishes as costs of climate disasters multiply

Soumya Sarkar 22 Nov 2024

UN climate summit starts in Azerbaijan under shadow of impending Trump presidency

Soumya Sarkar 11 Nov 2024
Demonstration in Bonn at the start of a previous COP. In November, world leaders will gather in Baku, Azerbaijan, to negotiate future climate action. Image by Spielvogel via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-3.0).

Climate finance to take centre stage at upcoming climate COP

Kundan Pandey 31 Oct 2024

COP28 launches loss and damage fund, but pledges are a drop in the ocean

Simrin Sirur 1 Dec 2023

Loss and damage fund gets a “compromised” draft deal going into COP28

Simrin Sirur 17 Nov 2023

Egypt summit decides to set up a fund for climate catastrophes, no other progress

Soumya Sarkar 21 Nov 2022

Egypt climate summit started with a bang but may end with a whimper

Soumya Sarkar 14 Nov 2022

India firm on finance as loss and damage climbs to climate agenda in Egypt

Soumya Sarkar 8 Nov 2022

World falters in containing climate crisis as negotiators head to Egypt for UN summit

Soumya Sarkar 4 Nov 2022
Chennai city flooded after Cyclone Nivar in 2020.

[Explainer] What is Loss and Damage?

Mahima Jain 31 Oct 2022
Deshbandhu Park in Kolkata, West Bengal, post cyclone Amphan. Photo by Indrajit Das/Wikimedia Commons.

Urgency brews to foreground loss and damage at COP27

Priyanka Shankar 1 Sep 2022

Climate negotiators must wake up to loss and damage as disasters multiply

Soumya Sarkar 11 Nov 2021

Himachal Pradesh and its recurring face-off with disasters

Kapil Kajal 3 Sep 2021