By Senashia Ekanayake
The twenty-first session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP21) kicked off Monday November 30, 2015 with the highest number of country leaders attending a COP.

By Sanjay Vashist
Chennai, India’s fourth-largest city is being battered by record-breaking rainfall that continues to pound the city. The weather and subsequent flooding have already claimed 270 lives, disrupted electricity and phone service in many areas, and forced the city’s airport to shutdown.

By Kashmala Kakakhel
The Paris Conference on Climate Change is a big deal. If successful, it will result in a global deal on combating climate change that may actually make a difference; resulting in real commitments to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally that are the real cause of climate change

By Vositha Wijenayake
In 2010, at the 16th session of the Conference of Parties, the Cancun Adaptation Framework (CAF) affirmed that adaptation and mitigation need to be addressed with the same level of priority.

By Zahrah Rizwan
Climate change is one of the key challenges that the world is facing today. Sri Lanka is already feeling its impacts. When discussing about climate change, mitigation becomes a key component, given that it is the primary form to reduce impacts of climate change.

By Sudhir Sharma
The last session of ADP prior to Paris came to an end prior to the last lap in Paris, and dramatic session it was. Session was about developing countries coming together to demand their fair share, figuratively speaking, in a text that becomes a negotiating text.

Download Here India’s goals for economic growth are ambitious; the Indian Government is aiming to achieve human development on a par with EU countries. There is also an intention to deliver ‘access to electricity for all’ in India during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first term in office. At the same time, India is a country […]

Download Here The paper titled “Understanding the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action: Developing Country Mitigation Framework under the Convention” aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) framework and enhance the understanding on NAMAs by explaining the Conference of the Parties (COP) decisions in layman’s terms. The paper is intended to […]

Download Here As per a report prepared by Climate Action Network South Asia, Christian Aid and  heinrich böll Foundation (HBF) India titled “Low Carbon Development in South Asia: Leapfrogging to a Green Future”, a ‘leapfrog fund’ should be established from global mitigation finance to support South Asia in moving towards a low-carbon economy. The report […]

Download Here Millions in South Asia, who depend on natural resources for their livelihoods, are affected and stand to be further affected by the impacts of climate change. This holds true whether the impact is due to rapid onset events like cyclones or slow onset events like sea level rise, increasing temperatures, ocean acidification, glacial […]