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Delhi hasn’t had a ‘good’ air day in over a year, you may have to wait till 2025

Cleanest air recorded this year in Delhi was on 13 September, when AQI touched 52. Levels of ultrafine particulate matter or PM2.5 are increasing every year.

ADB approves $500 million loan for Philippines’ climate change efforts

MANILA (Reuters) - The Asian Development Bank has approved a $500 million loan to support the Philippines' efforts to tackle climate change, it said on Tuesday. The loan will help accelerate reforms

Top importer Vietnam struggles to recycle plastic waste

By Francesco Guarascio and Khanh Vu MINH KHAI, Vietnam (Reuters) - Countless discarded bags float on the canal running through Minh Khai village, whose narrow streets are clogged with tall heaps of

31 cities under Centre’s National Clean Air Programme saw air quality worsen in last 5 years

Environment ministry data in LS shows Vizag & Angul saw more than 50% spike in PM10 concentrations. Some cities made progress, Varanasi topping list & Delhi seeing marginal improvement.

Analysis-Business seeks details in face of mixed COP29 climate messages

By Simon Jessop, Karin Strohecker and Virginia Furness BAKU (Reuters) - COP29 deals on finance and carbon markets could lead to billions more dollars flowing around the business world if countries

UK travel disrupted as Storm Bert fallout continues

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's roads and railways were hit by closures on Monday after Storm Bert battered the country over the weekend, causing widespread flooding and killing four people. There were

Emerging economies, including India, criticise $300 bn COP29 climate finance deal as insufficient

The target, hailed by UN as 'insurance policy for humanity against global warming', aims to help 'poorer nations' cope with climate change.

‘Climate finance’ for the Pacific is mostly loans, saddles small island nations with more debt

Recent research shows extreme weather is already costing vulnerable island nations $141 billion each year. This will rise to $1 trillion annually by 2030.

Factbox-The climate impact of fossil fuel exports

BAKU (Reuters) - A landmark agreement reached in Paris in 2015 to fight climate change requires countries to set targets and report on progress reducing national levels of planet-warming greenhouse

COP29 climate summit overruns as $250 billion draft deal stalls

By Valerie Volcovici and Gloria Dickie BAKU (Reuters) -The COP29 climate summit ran into overtime on Friday, after a draft deal that proposed developed nations take the lead in providing $250 billion

On Camera

Trump’s Iran blockade isn’t just about Tehran, it’s about China

The oil math is skewed against the White House. The blockade has a slim chance of working. Iran can remain defiant, and China unconcerned, longer than Trump can remain solvent.

Oil supply fell by 10 million barrels per day in March. IEA raises alarm over largest disruption ever

IEA projects sharp reversal from its earlier expectations, with global demand for oil in 2026 turning negative. Hormuz disruptions have pushed crude prices to $130 per barrel.

Warfare enters new dimension as Ukraine’s robot brigade records battle win against Russia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that a group of Russian soldiers surrendered to an unmanned battle group.

The world’s in a flux. India must reform, consolidate & build a strong economy

We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.