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DTE Coverage: How CBD COP16 unfoldedBy: Vibha Varshney, Shimali Chauhan, Rajat Ghai Lack of clarity on sharing of benefits arising from use of pathogens could impact pandemic treatyBy: Vibha Varshney Digital sequence information meet ends; draft recommendations ready for COP16 Cali negotiatorsBy: Vibha Varshney Talks begin in Montreal on digital sequence information of biodiversityBy: Vibha Varshney Budget 2024-25: Lacklustre provisions put question mark on commitments towards ambitious Biodiversity PlanBy: Vibha Varshney “Role of Indigenous Peoples, local communities in delivering Target 3 of biodiversity plan cannot be overstated”By: Vibha Varshney Click here to read more articles

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Tanzania: NEMC advances to strengthen environmental governance By: Ishita Garg This Nigerian waste tyre recycling company is a great example of circular practices By: Shobhit Srivastava Citizen participation in Ghana’s gold mining sector: A ray of hope for 'galamseyers'? By: Md Mostak Al Farhad Kenya’s environmental regulator ready to reconsider EIA processing fees due to financial crunch By: Md Mostak Al Farhad Protests over toxic gold mining at Nile: Will there be truce in Sudan By: Md Mostak Al Farhad Kabwe lead poisoning: Fresh evidence filed against mining company on behalf of over 100,000 victims By: Susan Chacko Water, Africa’s Gold: South Africa seeks to increase water through recycling, reuse By: Engela Duvenage COVID-19: Ethiopia stares at water crisis By: Shreya Verma The gold rush By: Srestha Banerjee African countries need to clean up their act on industrial pollution By: Shreya Verma

CSE @ COP29

BLOGS Fossil giant US announces new climate target, as Trump waits in the wingsBy: Rudrath Avinashi, Trishant Dev, Avantika Goswami Canada sets modest NDC target: 45-50% emissions cut by 2035, while fossil fuel production continuesBy: Rudrath Avinashi, Trishant Dev Big Polluters Dodged Their Duties at COP29; Will the ICJ Hold Them to Account?By: Laurie Van Der Burg, Avantika Goswami, Nikki Reisch Inside negotiation rooms: A first-time observer’s notes from finance talks in BakuBy: Sehr Raheja The Great Escape from Baku: Global North abandons South, denies adequate climate finance at COP29By: Upamanyu Das, Avantika Goswami “Is it a joke?”: Developing countries slam rumoured proposal for $200-300 billion in new climate finance from developed countriesBy: Avantika Goswami, Sehr Raheja, Upamanyu Das “Trump ate my climate finance homework”: No more excuses for Global North in BakuBy: Avantika Goswami CSE-DTE at COP29: All you need to know about the progress on Article 6 at the end of week 1By: Trishant Dev CSE-DTE at COP29: Climate finance talks kick off at full throttle but slow down; toughest issues pushed to week 2By: Sehr Raheja, Upamanyu Das COP29: New NDCs announced by UAE and Brazil; fossil fuel production remains an open questionBy: Rudrath Avinashi CSE-DTE at COP29: G77 and developing country allies reject first draft of climate finance textBy: Sehr Raheja, Upamanyu Das, Avantika Goswami Trump may want to destroy the planet, but we cannot let himBy: Upamanyu Das ‘Show us the money’: CSE calls for urgent, scaled-up, non-debt funding for Global South at COP29By: DTE Staff Unilateral trade measures will delay climate transition — COP29 must address thisBy: Avantika Goswami, Faten Aggad, Trishant Dev Carbon market in Africa grows bigger with cookstove and forest-based projectsBy: Trishant Dev Up to $6.8 trillion required till 2030 to meet climate goals of developing nations: UNFCCCBy: Satakshi Gupta Uncertainty looms in Baku as pre-COP29 finance negotiations end in logjamBy: Upamanyu Das New climate finance goal: Technical dialogue commences in Azerbaijan, heated debates expectedBy: Sehr Raheja China’s industrial ‘overcapacity’: Is it aiding the green transition or creating a global glut?By: Trishant Dev, Avantika Goswami Fossil fuels still dominate global energy, with Global North leading the production, report findsBy: Tamanna Sengupta Bonn Climate Conference 2024: Imbalanced texts, imbalanced outcomes on new climate finance targetBy: Sehr Raheja Bonn Climate Conference 2024: Finance flows as per Paris Agreement in talks at Sharm el-Sheikh Dialogue’s workshopBy: Fizza Zaidi

Make auto industry deliver on its promise

Glitz and glamour dazzled. The lure of jazzy cars at the recently concluded auto show stirred up mass hysteria, clogged roads, brought the city to a near halt. The dream sellers had them all entrapped. But the dream had a green wrapper - small cars, SUVs meeting the most stringent us norms, electric vehicles, hybrid cars, even CNG and diesel hybrid buses! The show is over. But serious questions persist. Need urgent answers. The show is definitely not over…

Making water-excreta accounts

How will India supply drinking water in cities? Many argue the problem is not inadequate water. The problem is the lack of investment in building infrastructure in cities and the lack of managerial capacities to operate the systems, once created. This line of thought then leads logically to policy reform, to invite private investment and hand over public water utilities to private parties to operate.

Excreta's economy: a true experience

Every society must understand how the excreta it produces is managed. It teaches us many things about water, about waste, about technologies to clean, economics and politics: of who is subsidised to defecate in our societies. But, most importantly, it teaches us humility. We know so little about our own world. If we knew better, we would understand why we are failing to ensure our present and why we will all need to do things differently, if we want to safeguard our future.

From water to water

Look out of the window the next time you travel by road or by train anywhere in India. Hit a human settlement, and you will see, heaps of plastic coloured garbage apart, pools of dirty black water and drains that go nowhere. They go nowhere because we have forgotten a basic fact: if there are humans, there will be excreta. Indeed, we have also forgotten another truth about the so-called modern world: if there is water use, there will be waste. Roughly 80 per cent of the water that reaches households flows out as waste.