Emerging Economies Climate Report 2022
The report reveals that over half of companies in emerging economies have been impacted by extreme weather events over the last 12 months.The report shows that 58% of companies in Africa and South Asia
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Catalyzing climate and disaster resilience: processes for identifying tangible and economically robust strategies
The economic benefits to society of investing in disaster risk management substantially exceed the costs. Appropriately designed risk reduction strategies represent a sound
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Hydro-climatic disasters in water resources management
Hydro-climatic disasters are responsible for the serious disruption of the functioning of a society or community and widespread human, material or environmental losses. These disasters and the communities exposed to them may be expected to climb with increased climate variability as a result of climate change.
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Adapting water management: a primer on coping with climate change
Climate change has profound implications for managing freshwater resources and the people and species dependent on those resources, but water management long predates any awareness of anthropogenic climate change. Indeed, large-scale water management has been one of the great themes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries worldwide.
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Water resources across Europe: confronting water scarcity and drought
This report provides an up-to-date assessment of water resources across Europe with the key objectives of: describing spatial patterns and trends in water availability and abstraction, identifying those regions subject to the greatest water stress and the detrimental impacts that ensue; increasing awareness of the challenges of water scarcity and drought and the need for a fundamental shift to a
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How to survive the coming century
If the planet warms by 4
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A 100-acre lake next to mines goes stone dry
HC Ruling Today Could Shape Fate Of Aravalis Faridabad: If still more evidence was required, here it is. A large lake, that till two years ago brimmed with water, has also dried up completely in Dhauj, just 3km from the Sirohi and Khori Jamalpur mines, ramming home yet again the correlation between mining in the Aravalis and the drought in the area.
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Tree rings tell of Angkor's dying days
Archaeologists have long puzzled over the collapse of the mighty medieval Khmer kingdom in Southeast Asia best known for its resplendent capital, Angkor. New findings suggest that a decades-long drought at about the time the kingdom began fading away in the 14th century may have been a major culprit.
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Making every drop count in the buildup to a blue revolution
Richard Richards, a geneticist at CSIRO Plant Industry, is breeding wheat varieties that can tough out prolonged droughts--and keep people fed.
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News 360 - Briefs
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Chinas worst drought in 50 yrs
Emergency Level Raised As 4.3M Hit; Wheat Output May Dip By 50%