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पोलैंड की राजधानी वारसॉ में जलवायु परिवर्तन के मुद्दे पर चल रही यूनाइटेड नेशन्स फ्रेमवर्क कन्वेंशन फॉर क्लाइमेट चेंज (यूएनएफसीसीसी) की 19वीं कॉन्फ्रेंस अब तक बेनतीजा रही हैं, लेकिन एक बात जो उभरकर सामने
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This report examines the relationship between disasters and poverty. It concludes that, without concerted action, there could be up to 325 million extremely poor people living in the 49 countries most
WARSAW: World may be looking at India for its response to what had happened recently in Odisha and Uttarakhand due to natural disasters which were results of climatic extremes, but there was not a word
The South Pacific convergence zone is a region of high precipitation spanning a vast swath of the Pacific Ocean that can shift northwards and become longitudinally oriented; such extreme zonal events have
A claim that global warming caused the 2010 Russian heatwave could bring closer the day when climate victims can sue oil firms.
Monsoons, cyclones & extreme events – Role of oceans - a presentation by M. R. Ramesh Kumar at CSE Annual South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change, 2013 held in New Delhi from September 18-19,
This document contains the presentation by Subimal Ghosh, Civil Engineering Department, IIT Bombay on “Finer Scale Temperature and Rainfall Projections under Climate Change” during Second National Research
This report covers the range of topics evaluated by Working Group I of the IPCC, namely the Physical Science Basis.
Global temperature rise could exceed "safe" levels of two degrees Celsius in some parts of the world in many of our lifetimes if greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, two research papers published
Worldwide, 2012 was among the 10 warmest years on record according to this 2012 State of the Climate report released by the American Meteorological Society (AMS).
This report provides information about the current “adaptation deficit” present in Uganda and the negative consequences and costs that climate variability already has on the Ugandan economy, and is expected
A recently published report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has made an assessment of the extreme climate events. Their past trends, future projections and vulnerability and adaptation
The United Nations has placed Pakistan among the ‘water hotspots’ of Asia-Pacific region, saying that the country is facing major threats of increasing water scarcity, high water utilisation, deteriorating
