Category Archives: Climate change
Growing Calls For Moratorium On Climate Geoengineering
By Stephen Leahy NAGOYA, Japan — Delegates to the world summit on biodiversity here are calling for a moratorium on climate engineering research, like the idea of putting huge mirrors in outer space to reflect some of the sun’s heating rays away from the planet.
Realising Low Carbon Infrastructure Dream
India would need major policy and regulatory changes including standards, taxation of pollution and tailored incentives to ensure infrastructure development follows a low carbon route. These are among the many proposals put forward in the India Infrastructure Report (IIR) 2010, released by Infrastructure Development Finance Company Limited (IDFC) on October 20, in New Delhi.
Warning from Leh
A cloud burst over arid Himalayan town of Leh in Ladakh on August 6, pouring some 250 mm of rain in an hour. The sudden downpour triggered flash floods and mudslides, killing over 180 people and wiping out the old town of Leh and two villages.
China’s glaciers may shrink 27 percent by 2050: Report
The average area of glaciers in western China might shrink by 27.2 percent by 2050 because of global warming, damaging crop production and worsening droughts, according to a report released at the UN climate talks in north China’s Tianjin Municipality.
Will climate innovation get the Cancun nudge?
The climate constraint will become increasingly problematic for developing countries as they try to meet their development needs. For example, it is estimated that more than 2.7 billion people worldwide still rely on biomass, burnt in open fires or traditional three-stone ‘cookstoves’ and that almost 1.4 billion people do not have access to electricity.
Climate change treaty must address health issues: WHO
19 OCT, 2010 from The Economic Times The World Health Organisation (WHO) Tuesday said next month’s climate change conference in Mexico must address health concerns in any legally-binding agreement on mitigating the impacts of global warming as it threatens human health.
Consequences of Extended Monsoon
BY NANDKUMAR KAMAT THE Government of Goa is not fully geared to face extreme weather phenomena. Losses of traditional storm water drainage systems and failure to provide sufficient resilience and capacitance against extreme weather phenomena have further compounded the problems in Goa.
India’s Take On Climate Change
24 Recent Initiatives Related to Climate Change. View report
India’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions 2007
India ranks 5th in aggregate GHG emissions in the world, behind USA, China, EU and Russia in 2007. Interestingly, the emissions of USA and China are almost 4 times that of India in 2007. It is also noteworthy that the emissions intensity of India’s GDP declined by more than 30% during the period 1994-2007, due […]