Global temperatures remained exceptionally high throughout 2025 despite the absence of warming natural cycles such as El Niño, highlighting the dominant role of fossil fuel-driven climate change in intensifying extreme weather, a new report revealed on December 30, 2025. Heatwaves grew more severe, storms became wetter and stronger, and droughts and wildfires worsened, pushing millions…
Following COP29 in Azerbaijan and the Bonn climate meeting earlier this year helped me understand the fault lines that exist in the climate process, most prominently the divide between the developed and the developing world. One could sense the disappointment over the outcome in Baku, referred to as the new collective quantified goal, reflected across…
Clean energy subsidies in India rose by 31 per cent year on year to nearly Rs 32,000 crore in the 2023-24 financial year, while fossil fuel subsidies fell by 12 per cent, narrowing the gap between the two to its lowest level in five years, according to a new report. However, government support for fossil…