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Saturday, January 3, 2026
TopicClimate change

Topic: Climate change

World Bank chief Ajay Banga unveils new plans to help countries tackle climate change

The new steps, still in discussion, come on top of initial steps approved in April that will boost World Bank lending by up to $50 billion over the next decade.

US, China could climate cooperation to redefine troubled relationship, says John Kerry

Kerry's visit to China as US climate envoy marks the formal resumption in top-level climate diplomacy between the countries. He is the third top US official to visit Beijing in past month.

US, China aim to revive climate talks as planet reels under extreme weather

By Valerie Volcovici BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said it was "imperative that China and the United States make real progress" in the four months before U.N.-sponsored climate

US, China envoys seek to revive climate diplomacy ahead of COP28 talks

John Kerry urged China to partner with US to cut methane emissions & reduce the climate impact of coal-fired power, with both sides aiming to rebuild trust after suspension in talks last year.

US and China aim to renew cooperation to combat climate change as tensions simmer

John Kerry and Xie Zhenhua, who have worked together for almost two decades, will meet in Beijing between 16 and 19 July to discuss methane emissions, deforestation and climate change.

COP28 president calls on governments to raise climate targets by September

He was referring to ‘Nationally Determined Contributions,’ the emissions-cutting pledges that serve as countries’ national contributions to meeting 2015 Paris Agreement’s goals.

What is geoengineering? US govt open to studying idea that blocking Sun rays could cool Earth

A White House report has suggested the Biden administration is open to studying the possibility of the effectiveness of solar radiation management, bringing concept to headlines again.

Latin America’s extreme weather is unleashing vicious cycle further fueling climate dangers

Over the past 30 years, temperatures have warmed by 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade. Drought and storms caused most of the $9 billion in economic damages in 2022.

Women from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh bear the climate crisis brunt—but they also hold the key to tackling it

Pakistan's Minister for Climate Change, Sherry Rehman, has been instrumental in formulating the loss and damage fund facility for developing nations at COP 27 in Egypt.

Land and sea temperatures touch record high, experts warn against extreme climate change

Though mean temperatures had temporarily breached the 1.5C threshold before, this was the first time they had done so in the northern hemisphere summer that starts on 1 June.

On Camera

Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody

Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.