2024 Disasters in Numbers
<p>In 2024, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded 393 natural hazard-related disasters. These events caused 16,753 fatalities and affected 167.2 million people. Economic losses totaled US$241.95
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Warsaw paves the way for apportioning the carbon budget based on use and distribution, not scarcity
<p>Since all Parties are now going make “nationally determined contributions” towards mitigating climate change they will do so under Article 4.1 of the Convention, and the issue to be decided,
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Quick comments: US submission – post -2015 Agreement
<p><img alt="" src="http://indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/media/iep/homepage/msanwal_blog.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 117px; float: left;" />The US submission on elements of the post-2015 agreement
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Bhopal: A prayer for rain
On the night of 3rd December, 1984, Union Carbide tank 610, released 40 tonnes of lethal gas into Bhopal. What followed was the worst industrial disaster in human history. “Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain” is
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Latest IPCC report reeks of northern agenda
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Future Food: USA - 'Big or Small?'
In Big or Small?, Future Food travels to the American mid-west to meet Vietnam veteren and farmer, Ron Meyer. When he isn’t farming his 400 acres and 40 cattle, he is battling big agribusiness, which is
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Leaders’ Forum on Women Leading the Way: Raising Ambition for Climate Action
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Climate change: an opportunity for leadership by the BRICS
<p><img alt="" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/media/iep/homepage/msanwal_blog.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 117px; float: left;" /></p> <p> </p> <p>Compromises have to be made
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India should guide the world on fighting climate change
<p><strong><img alt="" src="http://indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/media/iep/homepage/msanwal_blog.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 117px;" />Moving sustainability from ideas to reality and regaining the
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Education, Science, and Technology for Sustainable Development International Conference 29 October 2015, United States of America
The Education, Science, and Technology for Sustainable Development 2014 International (ESTSD'15 Conference) will provide the ideal opportunity to meet experts in education, educational sciences, social
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Struggling with global climate change
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