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Live Cartoons at COP28 with the Global Resilience Partnership

Live cartoons done for the Global Resilience Partnership's Cop Resilience Hub sessions at COP28. These are from the session on accelerating access to finance at the local level, with speakers from Fundacion Avina, CDKN, CJRF and Indigenous People and Local Communities networks, moderated by Victoria Matusevich.

Live cartoons from the COP Resilience Hub's session on inversting in nature-based solutions, moderated by Conservation International.



From a session on building climate resilient health systems, moderated by ABT Britain.




From a panel on the intersections of climate change and food security, featuring a speech on climate change and the prevalence of female genital mutilation among the Maasai community, by Miss Climate Kenya, Dorcas Naishorua.


From the UN session on taking stock of climate resilience.





Cartoons from a session on investing in coastal resilience, with speakers from Ocean Risk Alliance and USAID.


From a session on the impacts of climate change on maternal and neonatal health, with speakers from Clinton Health Access, ISHTM UK and Human Rights Watch.

UAE at COP28

The chief stand-up comedian of the greatest comedy show on earth, COP28, has not disappointed. "No science behind the demand to phase out fossil fuels"- ADNOC Head and COP 28 President, Sultan al Jaber! Cartoon available royalty free on my Cartoonstock gallery.

A Chinstrap Penguin Welcomes the UN Secretary General to Antarctica

Scientists have recently uncovered that Chinstrap Penguins snooze more than ten thousand times a day, when nesting! With war mongers and fossil fuel bigwigs still calling the shots around the world, we know who else does that too!

In other news, I am cartooning live at the UAE COP28 (joining online from India) , as the cartoonist-in-virtual-residence for the Global Resilience Partnership’s COP Resilience Hub. You can follow my work from COP28 by subscribing to the GRP’s newsletter here.

Black Spotted Croaker the State Fish of Gujarat

Gujarat's newly declared State Fish, the Black-spotted Croaker or 'Ghol' is 'near-threatened' on the IUCN Red List because of overfishing and export of swim bladders for Chinese medicine. Hopefully, the new title will make the conservation of the Ghol a priority. Comic from my column with The Hindu Sunday Magazine.

Namibia Ecuador and Australia

Quiz time! Pick the 'developed' country out of the three: Namibia, Ecuador, or Australia?Cartoon for DW Environment. 

Porcupine Crests

On porcupine crests from my column with Roundglass Sustain. India has three species of porcupines: the Indian Crested, the Himalayan (Malayan) Crestless, and the Asiatic Brush-tailed porcupine. 

Congo Cobalt and Climate Justice

How sustainable really is 'sustainable technology' when it is linked to human rights violations in Central Africa? Read how cobalt mining is at the heart of the 2023 Congolese conflict here. 
Cartoon from my column with The Hindu.

Tibetan Fox and Climate Change

You're being watched, and judged, by the judgy eyes of a Tibetan Fox. From the roof of the world.
Comic from my column with Roundglass Sustain. 

Bomberman Biden

Bomberman Biden and COP28 commitments. Cartoon from my Gocomics.

Chevella Banyans of Hyderabad

In a rare victory for trees, Hyderabad's environment activists have bought breathing time for the 100 years old banyans of Chevella which were on the brink of being axed for the widening of a highway. The National Green Tribunal has now sought an environment impact assessment from the National Highway Authority of India before touching the banyans. Cartoon from my column with The Hindu.