Climate India 2022: an assessment of extreme weather events
<p>India recorded extreme weather events on 242 of the 273 days from January 1 through September 30, 2022, according to this new report by the Centre for Science and Environment.</p>
<p>India recorded extreme weather events on 242 of the 273 days from January 1 through September 30, 2022, according to this new report by the Centre for Science and Environment.</p>
<p>This report produced by the Frankfurt School-UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance, UNEP and Bloomberg New Energy Finance tracks the latest developments, signs and signals in the financing of renewable energy and explores the issues affecting each type of investment, technology and the region.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/media/iep/homepage/ulsoor_lake.jpg" style="width: 270px; height: 195px; margin: 8px; float: left;" />Environment protection groups, Save Bangalore
<p>This second part of the most-awaited IPCC's fifth assessment of climate change focuses on the climate impacts and how the world might adapt. It details the impacts of climate change to date, the future risks from a changing climate, and the opportunities for effective action to reduce risks. Read the summary of this report for policymakers.</p>
<p>17.9 million Kolkatans face serious risk from natural disasters and the city emerges as the world’s seventh riskiest city reveals this new analysis of natural disasters confronting 616 of the world’s largest urban areas.</p>
<p>The Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) issued this draft notification earmarking 56,825 sq km of the Western Ghats as Ecologically Sensitive Area (ESA) in the states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu keeping it out of bounds for mining, quarrying and major construction and thermal projects. Read the text.</p>
This comprehensive audit of climate legislation across 66 countries together responsible for around 88% of global manmade greenhouse gas emissions was launched at the 2nd GLOBE Climate Legislation Summit held at the Senate of the United States of America and at the World Bank, Washington D.C. See this package for the study, related policies and documents.
<p>India’s 2005 National Rural Employment Guarantee Act creates a justiciable 'right to work' by promising up to 100 days of wage employment per year to all rural households whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. Work is provided in public works projects at the stipulated minimum wage. </p>
<p>The Union environment ministry has informed the National Green Tribunal that a final decision on implementation of Kasturirangan Panel report on the Western Ghats would be taken in a month and clarified that the order issued by Jayanthi Natarajan on 13 Nov 2013 for ban on new projects in the 6,000-sq km zone continues to be in force. Click here for the report, MoEF orders...</p>
<p>This Compendium of Environment Statistics 2013 published by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation is the fourteenth edition of its series and covers five core parameters - biodiversity, atmosphere, land/soil, water and human settlements.</p>
<p>The fifty-sixth report on 'The Agricultural Biosecurity Bill 2013' presented by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture in Lok Sabha on 5th Febraury 2014.</p>