Wake up call
<p>Underscoring yet another reason why an ambitious climate deal must come out of upcoming COP21 talks in Paris, a new United Nations report warns of the "high price" of extreme weather disasters
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World Water Forum opens to warnings of scarcity, waste
A global meeting on water opened in France on Monday with demands to bring clean water and sanitation to billions in need and to address worsening scarcity and waste. "The challenges are huge and the
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The malady of the lakes
Choking and pollution of the Great Lakes in Africa has affected breeding of unique fish species
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India enters Hagen pact in name
Joins Accord With Riders To Facilitate Talks; China Expected To Follow Suit New Delhi: After three months of confabulation within the government, India on Tuesday allowed a conditional association of its name with the Copenhagen Accord.
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Air pollution, greenhouse gases and climate change: global and regional perspectives
Greenhouse gases (GHGs) warm the surface and the atmosphere with significant implications for rainfall, retreat of glaciers and sea ice, sea level, among other factors. About 30 years ago, it was recognized that the increase in tropospheric ozone from air pollution (NOx, CO and others) is an important greenhouse forcing term.
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Summit urged to clean up farming
Leading scientists say that agriculture is a ‘poor relation’ in global-warming negotiations.
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Latest public Carbon Ranking of the 300 largest companies across the five BRICS countries released as NGO turns spotlight on corporate emissions
New research released today by the Environmental Investment Organisation (EIO), a climate change and finance think tank, shows large quantities of emissions are not being accounted for. Public disclosure
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Children on the front line
<p><img alt="" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/media/iep/homepage/climate_children.jpg" style="width: 270px; height: 190px; margin: 8px; float: left;" />This new report published by the the
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Climate Action Tracker global update: Paris Agreement turning point
The recent wave of net zero targets has put the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C within striking distance. In this briefing, the Climate Action Tracker (CAT) has calculated that global warming by 2100 could be
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Climate teleconnections and recent patterns of human and animal disease outbreaks
Recent clusters of outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases (Rift Valley fever and chikungunya) in Africa and parts of the Indian Ocean islands illustrate how interannual climate variability influences the
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Tianjin meet to try to reduce climate disputes
TWO months away from the year-end UN climate summit in the Mexican resort town of Cancun, countries appear to have given up the idea of a binding climate treaty this year. The focus now is on narrowing down differences and providing the framework for an agreement, perhaps in South Africa next year.
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Ecological threat report 2021: understanding ecological threats, resilience and peace
Countries hit by ecological damage and conflict are trapped in a vicious cycle where one problem reinforces the other. And climate change is expected to make things worse. Ecological threats will lead
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UN climate change talks make little headway
Global talks to widen a fight against climate change reached gridlock on their final day on Friday after scant progress overnight to encourage rich nations to help Africa. The two weeks of talks of
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Improved crop productivity for Africa’s drylands
More than 200 million people living in dryland regions of Sub-Saharan Africa make their living from agriculture. Most are exposed to weather shocks, especially drought, that can decimate their incomes,
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El Niño: undermining resilience- implications of El Niño in Southern Africa from a food and nutrition security perspective
This document serves to outline El Niño’s major implications on food and nutrition security in the southern Africa region and highlights immediate and long-term preparedness requirements. Further, it provides
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Utility-scale solar and wind areas: Mauritania
Identifying potentially suitable areas for solar and wind project development can assist countries in reducing assessment costs. This allows the government to conduct more detailed evaluations that account
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World energy trilemma index 2020
The World Energy Trilemma Index is an annual measurement of national energy system performances across each of the three trilemma dimensions: Energy Security measures a nation’s capacity to meet current
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Mobilizing climate investment: the role of international climate finance in creating readiness for scaled-up low-carbon energy
Limiting global temperature rise to 2°C above pre-industrial levels will require billions of dollars in investments each year to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and shift to low-emissions development
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Assessing climate change risks and contextual vulnerability in urban areas of semi-arid India: the case of Bangalore
The discourse on urban vulnerability over the last decade and a half has undergone substantial shifts prompted by differences in disciplinary orientations. This enables multiple framings and causal linkages,
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Potential for reduced methane and carbon dioxide emissions from livestock and pasture management in the tropics
<p>We estimate the potential reductions in methane and carbon dioxide emissions from several livestock and pasture management options in the mixed and rangeland-based production systems in the tropics.