Raksha Kumar

Dec 3, 2024 | thewalrus.ca | Raksha Kumar

On June 20, Sébastien Farcis, a French journalist working for Radio France Internationale, Libération, and the Swiss and Belgian public radios, announced on X that India’s government had refused to renew his work permit. He wrote that they had given no explanation for preventing him from practising his profession and “depriving me of all my income.” Farcis had left India three days before.

Dec 11, 2023 | thenewsminute.com | Raksha Kumar

The second week of the annual UN climate change summit or COP has begun. Among other things, negotiations on fossil fuel generation are ongoing. For the first time in the history of COPs, Samoa, a Polynesian island country, called for an end to new investment in fossil fuel infrastructure, on behalf of all small island states. Smaller island states are responsible for very little greenhouse gas emissions but bear the brunt of climate emergencies.

Dec 8, 2023 | thenewsminute.com | Raksha Kumar

Thursday marked the end of the first week of the annual UN climate change summit. In many ways, this year’s COP or Conference of Parties has seen many firsts. The Loss and Damage Fund was operationalised, a health declaration was signed and 134 countries signed the Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems, and Climate Action. This was the first time in three decades that agriculture and food systems featured prominently in a COP.

Dec 2, 2023 | thenewsminute.com | Raksha Kumar

On the very first day at the UN climate summit, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, the United States and the European Union pledged 475 million dollars to the Loss and Damage Fund that was created last year in Egypt. Thus bringing to life a fund to assist poorer countries facing the brunt of erratic weather events and climate change, caused mainly by higher carbon emissions of the wealthy nations.

Sep 11, 2023 | restofworld.org | Raksha Kumar

Elderly villagers in India remember a time when a designated person from the community would climb up a nearby hillock, peer at the sky, study the clouds, and predict the weather. Shyamappa, 84, recalls making such predictions for her village Alagawadi, located in the southern state of Karnataka. “I was correct about half the time,” she told Rest of World. This enthusiasm for making weather predictions has now gone digital, with easy access to weather data and technology.