State of the Climate in Asia 2024
<p>The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing
Heat Waves
-
Working on a warmer planet: the effect of heat stress on productivity and decent work
<p>Rising heat due to climate change could lead to the loss of 80 million jobs by 2030, with less-developed countries worst hit warns the International Labour Organisation in this new report. India is projected to lose 5.8 per cent of working hours in 2030. In absolute terms India, is expected to lose the equivalent of 34 million full-time jobs in 2030 as a result of heat stress.</p>
-
Heatwave guide for cities
This practical guide is designed with, and for, people working in city government to understand, reduce the risk of, and respond to, heatwaves in their cities. The guide provides information and recommendations
-
Killer heat in the United States: Climate choices and the future of dangerously hot days
This UCS analysis provides a detailed view of how extreme heat events caused by dangerous combinations of temperature and humidity are likely to become more frequent and widespread in the United States
-
Killer heat in the United States: Climate choices and the future of dangerously hot days
This UCS analysis provides a detailed view of how extreme heat events caused by dangerous combinations of temperature and humidity are likely to become more frequent and widespread in the United States
-
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Deaths Due to Heatwaves, 25/06/2019
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Deaths Due to Heatwaves, 25/06/2019. The data on deaths due to heatwave is not being maintained centrally by this Ministry. However, as per the information received from
-
Delhi’s sweet spot: 25°C to 31°C
Study says power demand doesn’t rise with increase in temperature in this range The Centre for Science and Environment, in a study which is to be released on Thursday, has found that there is a temperature
-
Severe heat wave conditions continued in Himachal and Una, which recorded a high of 45.2 degrees C, the temperature it witnessed on June 21, 2005.
At least 61 persons have died in a heat wave that hit three Bihar districts on Saturday, officials said on Sunday. Thirty persons have lost their lives due to the sweltering heat in Aurangabad, while
-
No Drought Alert Yet, But Centre Warns of Deficit Rainfall
The Centre has asked states to brace for deficit rainfall this season, although the weather office has stuck to its forecast of normal monsoon. The suggestion came at the Centre’s first meeting on drought
-
Shimla sees the hottest day in 5 yrs
Severe heat wave conditions continued in Himachal and Una, which recorded a high of 45.2 degrees C, the temperature it witnessed on June 21, 2005. Shimla, the key summer tourist spot, recorded 30.3 degrees
-
Increasing mitigation ambition to meet the Paris Agreement’s temperature goal avoids substantial heat-related mortality in U.S. cities
<p>Current greenhouse gas mitigation ambition is consistent with ~3°C global mean warming above preindustrial levels.<a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/heat-related-mortality.pdf"