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Monday, August 11, 2025
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Topic: UNFCCC

COP29 starts next week. What’s on agenda & how global climate action fared in 9 yrs since Paris Agreement

COP29 is expected to be the ‘Finance COP’ given the focus is on long-term climate finance, adaptation, and loss and damage funding. Discussions will be on who will pay and how much.

‘Not everybody doing as promised’ — US climate envoy Kerry on global warming, ahead of COP28

In a digital briefing Wednesday, John Kerry called on COP28 to hold nations accountable for failing to deliver on promises made at earlier summits in fight against climate change. 

Carbon trading to climate fund negotiations — what to expect from COP28 in Dubai

The UN climate conference that starts tomorrow is likely to take up the Global Methane Pledge, which India will be under pressure to sign, and review a stocktake of the 2015 Paris Agreement.

India’s solar energy experience pivotal to Africa outreach, says International Solar Alliance D-G

Ajay Mathur, director general of International Solar Alliance, says pioneering efforts in solar mini-grid sector have played crucial role in advancing solar energy accessibility.

On Camera

BJP vs BJP battle in Constitution Club is a glimpse of widening fault lines—Mumbai to Lucknow

Tuesday’s Constitution Club election is not the finale of the ‘Thakur-versus-the rest’ battle in the BJP. Wait for the caste census result to come ahead of the next Lok Sabha election.

How mining, manufacturing & power sectors weighed on India’s industrial output since January 2024

India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.

Legacy of Air Chief Marshal LM Katre, the man who flew Spitfires & ushered IAF into a modern era

ACM Katre was 2nd IAF chief to die in harness. It was at a memorial lecture in his honour where IAF chief AP Singh revealed that India shot down 6 Pakistani aircraft in Op Sindoor.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.