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, …
Like any other field, research on climate change has some fundamental gaps, although not the ones typically claimed by sceptics. Quirin Schiermeier takes a hard look at some of the biggest problem areas.
Abu Dhabi, Jan 19, (PTI): R K Pachauri, head of UN's panel of climate scientists on Tuesday defended his Nobel winning team over forecasting an early disappearance of the Himalayan glaciers, saying he will soon come with a response report on the issue. The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) …
RASHME SEHGAL Union minister for environment Jairam Ramesh believes his ministry's stand that the Himalayan glaciers were not going to disappear in the next three decades now stands vindicated. A benchmark study undertaken by scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a UN body regarded as the world's …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: The government on Monday said its contention that there was no immediate and serious threat to the Himalayan glaciers was vindicated with the latest evidence suggesting that the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claim on the glaciers disappearing by 2035 due to climate change, was …
A warning that most of the Himalayan glaciers will melt by 2035 owing to climate change is likely to be retracted after the United Nations body that issued it admitted to a series of scientific blunders. Two years ago, the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) headed by India's Rajendra …
Awarning that climate change will melt most Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Glaciologists are arguing over how a highly contentious claim about the speed at which glaciers are melting came to be included in the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In 1999 New Scientist reported a comment by the leading Indian glaciologist Syed Hasnain, who said in an …
It was a dramatic declaration: glaciers across much of the Himalayas may be gone by 2035. When New Scientist heard this comment from a leading Indian glaciologist, we reported it. That was in 1999. The claim later appeared in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's most recent report - and …
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has published a report of the expert meeting on Detection and Attribution Related to Anthropogenic Climate Change. The meeting, organized jointly by Working Groups I (Physical Science Basis and Impacts) and II (Adaptation and Vulnerability), was held in Geneva, Switzerland, from 14-16 September …
It is easy to feel disappointed by the accord brokered last week by US President Barack Obama at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen. The document's broad outlines do not constitute a treaty, nor is it even clear whether it should technically be called a global …
RASHME SEHGAL NEW DELHI Dr R.K. Pachauri, chairman, The Energy and Resources Institute (Teri), on Wednesday issued a lengthy denial about having misused his position "to amass a huge fortune" as had been alleged in an article written by climate sceptic Christopher Booker and recently published in the Telegraph, UK. …
