The Working Group III report provides an updated global assessment of climate change mitigation progress and pledges, and examines the sources of global emissions. It explains developments in emission reduction and mitigation efforts, assessing the impact of national climate pledges in relation to long-term emissions goals. An emissions gap persists, …
Narayan Lakshman It will be conducted by the Inter Academy Council, an international scientific organisation Washington DC: The United Nations has initiated, in tandem with the Chair of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),
New Delhi, March 11: The review of the error ridden fourth Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been handed over to the Inter-Academy Council (IAC), a scientific organisation bringing together experts from 15 countries, to be led by IAC co-chairs Robbert Dijkgraaf, who heads the Royal Netherlands Academy of …
The United Nations launched an independent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has come under much criticism in the recent months. The decision was announced by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and IPCC chair Rajendra Pachauri in the wake of a report by the body which erroneously …
The United Nations on Wednesday launched an independent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has come under much criticism in the recent months. The decision was announced by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and IPCC chair Rajendra Pachauri in the wake of a report by the body …
The integrity of climate research has taken a very public battering in recent months. Scientists must now emphasize the science, while acknowledging that they are in a street fight. (Editorial)
This document contains the presentation made by Umesh Babu at National climate research conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010. Central to global measures to contain climate change is reduction in emissions of GHGs. Several times, non-annex countries like India and China are blamed for Green House Gas (GHG) emissions, particularly …
Climate change assessment and decelerating food production trends in India: a paper presented by Dr. Krishna Kumar, IITM, Pune at National climate research conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010.
Aerosols: Integrating an understanding of source-receptor relationships with climate forcing on regional scales a paper presented by Chandra Venkataraman at National climate research conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010.
Much research has now been conducted into the representation of climate change in the media. Specifically, the communication of climate change from scientists and policy-makers to the public via the mass media has been a subject of major interest because of its implications for creating national variation in public understanding …
The public debate on the IPCC report in India has not gone beyond what I would call page three social science. It has remained obsessed with the politics of personality and hence it is time it were rescued from this obsession and given some academic sobriety. I have flagged five …
Ever since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 report on the impacts of climate change was discovered to contain a major error - that the Himalayan glaciers will be largely gone by 2035 - there has been a media feeding frenzy to find other mistakes. But it misses the …
FOR many environmentalists, all human influence on the planet is bad. Many natural scientists implicitly share this outlook. This is not unscientific, but it can create the impression that greens and environmental scientists are authoritarian tree-huggers who value nature above people. That doesn't play well with mainstream society, as the …
WITH a concerted effort to question the intensity of climate impact, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chairman R K Pachauri talks about the high cost of undermining the findings of science. How do you, as IPCC chief, view the Copenhagen Accord? Status of accord is not clear. There is …
Phil Jones holds himself defensively, his arms crossed tightly in front of his chest as if shielding himself from attack. Little wonder: Jones has spent the past three months being vilified for his central role in what is now called 'climategate'.Jones was director of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at …
Transparency and quality control are essential in the highly uncertain business of assessing the impact of climate change on a regional scale. (Editorial)
Rahi Gaikwad Mumbai: Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which came under fire for an error in predicting that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035, said on Tuesday that the contentions of snowfall discrediting the meltdown were incorrect and there was no ambiguity that …
Climate Science Takes Another Blow As Sloppy Work Erodes Credibility Of UN Climate Body Our Political Bureau NEW DELHI JUST when the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change thought it could put mistakes of the fourth assessment report behind it and carry on with its work, fresh instances of alleged manipulations …
The UN climate change panel has admitted to having imprecisely stated in a key report that 55 per cent of The Netherlands is under sea level, saying that is only the area at risk of flooding. Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Rajendra Pachauri . File Photo/AFPThe …
The UN climate change panel has admitted to having imprecisely stated in a key report that 55 per cent of The Netherlands is under sea level, saying that is only the area at risk of flooding. The Dutch government this month asked the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to …
