The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
This video-clip shows Shyam Saran, special envoy of the Prime Minister (climate change) responding to south asian journalists on the issue of technology transfer, at South Asian media briefing workshop on climate change, organised by Centre for science and environment on 27-28th Aug 09 in New Delhi. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFA8zEWliuQ
This video presents the lecture delivered by Shyam Saran, special envoy of the Prime Minister (climate change) at South Asian media briefing workshop on climate change, organised by Centre for science and environment on 27-28th Aug 09 in New Delhi. He briefs South Asian journalists on how the developed differ …
Watch Shyam Saran at CSE's South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change on Aug 27, 2009. He briefed more than 120 journalists on the climate deal that developing countries look for at Copenhagen, this year in December. This video shows the briefing by Shyam Saran, special envoy of the …
This video presents the lecture delivered by Shyam Saran, special envoy of the Prime Minister (climate change) at South Asian media briefing workshop on climate change, organised by Centre for science and environment on 27-28th Aug 09 in New Delhi. He briefs South Asian journalists on how technology and finances …
The draft of the National Food Security Act is going to be presented before Parliament in the winter session. This was one of the main promises made by the Indian National Congress in its manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections, 2009. As per the proposed Act, the most vulnerable sections …
African leaders will ask rich nations for $67 billion per year to mitigate the impact of global warming on the world's poorest continent, according to a draft resolution seen by Reuters on Monday. Ten leaders are holding talks at African Union (AU) headquarters in the Ethiopian capital to try to …
The Maldives on Wednesday said a budget crisis will keep its president from attending landmark U.N. climate talks, the results of which could have a huge effect on the future of the low-lying archipelago. Famed mostly for its high-end luxury resorts and white-sand atolls, the Maldives has also made a …
- Aroma tied to non-South Asia variety but mystery lingers Biryani made with Basmati rice The fragrance of Basmati has its roots in an ancestral form of Japonica rice and not in Indica, a distinct group widely cultivated in South Asia, a new study of rice genes has suggested. The …
This working paper explores the intersection between water management, climate change, and adaptation in the Ganges River system, a basin vital to the security, economy, and environment of South Asia. Recognizing that an understanding of both the science and the policy of water management, climate change, and adaptation is rapidly …
This report by Jon Padgham identifies and summarizes potential climate change impacts on agriculture in the developing world, examines causes of vulnerability, and suggests where investments are needed to better climate-proof agriculture. It concludes, inter alia, that: diversification of rural livelihoods through agricultural microenterprise development can reduce exposure to climate …
Hydrochemistry in parts of the Lower Tista Floodplain in northwest Bangladesh is dominated by alkalies and weakly acid, having highest concentration of sodium cations and bicarbonate anions respectively. Groundwater is characterized by sodium-calcium and sodium-potassium cation and bicarbonate-chloride-sulphate anion facies, and genetically ‘normal chloride’, ‘normal sulphate’, and ‘normal carbonated’ type, …
Atmospheric aerosols (a mixture of solid or liquid particles suspended in the air medium) are short-lived, with a residence time of about a week in the lower troposphere. Unlike the principal greenhouse gases, aerosols are more concentrated in the source regions and exhibit strong spatial and temporal variations.
Alleviation of poverty in South Asia was much slower compared to other regions of the world between 1999 and 2005. The progress made is also under threat of global economic contraction and lost jobs, says the annual UN report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Bright spots do emerge from …
