COP26: Climate negotiators seek to resolve four key challenges at Glasgow

As this year’s UN climate talks go into their second week, negotiations on key topics are inching forward. Boosted by a few high-profile announcements at the start of the meeting, delegates are upbeat about the prospects for tangible progress in the fight against global warming. Laurent Fabius, the former French…

Drums and songs: A look at the other side of PM Modi’s Glasgow visit

Seven years after he enthralled his audience in Japan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi played a drum on yet another foreign tour, in Glasgow, the Scottish city where the United Nations climate summit is underway. PM Modi was in Glasgow to attend the climate summit, COP26. COP stands for the Conference of the Parties that…

Global agriculture faces climate reality: Corn production to fall 24% by 2030, wheat yields to rise

As world leaders converge in Glasgow to chart a new course of action to prevent the world from catastrophic climate change, the effects could be aggravated sooner than we anticipated. As extreme weather events become common across the world, climate change is set to hit the production of food crops by as early as 2030.…