Anushka Mohite
Senior Associate
Anushka has over 11 years of experience in writing about climate change, climate science, environment and development issues. She completed her Masters in Internationalism Journalism from Cardiff University and currently resides in Mumbai.
What COP30 reveals about the next phase of multilateralism
COP30 did not collapse. This may feel like a win in a year when climate diplomacy has seen a major churning. The process survived extreme weather, fire scares, and the COP30 presidency’s strategy to mainly focus on closed-door negotiations. But just surviving is far from enough. Two weeks after the Belém COP
From fire to fallout: COP30’s uneasy compromise
COP30 witnessed its most dramatic moment, yet. But it had nothing to do with text negotiations. On Thursday evening, a massive fire broke out in the venue’s ‘Blue Zone’, forcing talks to shut down for more than six hours. No one was injured, but those participating were clearly shaken up.
India’s stance at COP30: No new commitments without real finance
COP30 is almost at the halfway mark and country stances are getting clearer as negotiations progress. For India, the position is crystal clear: nothing moves unless finance does, according to a source familiar with the delegation’s strategy.
New report recasts Global South as climate finance investor, not recipient
“Tackling climate change and nature loss is one of the greatest economic opportunities of our era.” This line from the Fourth Report by the Independent High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance (IHLEG), released on Wednesday at COP30, may have forever changed the language of climate finance from one of responsibility of richer nations towards poorer ones to one of investment,
Can multilateralism still deliver at COP30?
COP30 is upon us. Amid a global geopolitical churn, where climate has slipped down the priority list, the world will head to Belém, Brazil, for what the COP30 Presidency has called the “Implementation COP”. Last year, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) grappled
Global energy transition could lead to loss of one million coal jobs: Report
By 2050, nearly 1 million coal mine jobs will no longer exist at operating mines given the coal industry’s foreseeable closures, potentially laying off over 37% of the existing workforce, the report says. A new report found that close to 100 coal mining jobs will be lost per day until 2035 as existing coal mines reach their end.