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, …
More than 600 self-professed climate skeptics are meeting in New York this week to challenge what has become a broad scientific and political consensus: that without big changes in energy choices, humans will dangerously heat up the planet. The three-day International Conference on Climate Change - organized by the Heartland …
The Delhi Sustainable Development Summit brought the crisis of climate change sharply into focus The threat held out by climate change is eliciting enough concern worldwide to have drawn some 700 stakeholders from India and overseas to a three-day conference in New Delhi last fortnight. Organised by The Energy and …
Going green not only helps save the environment, but it can also help you make big money if you are enterprising enough. Innovative people are trying to make the best of both worlds, writes Abhijit Parashar Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a methodology to mitigate the contribution of fuel …
The climate change debate raises the issue of often identified, but as yet little explored, requirement to incorporate climate policy into other policy sectors, often termed climate
Participants at a scientific conference held in Copenhagen in March were shocked to hear new, much higher estimates for likely sea-level rise and rainforest loss that could lead to trees emitting more carbon than they store.
This report addresses the question of the relationship between the level of emission reductions to be undertaken by the United States by 2020 and the risk of exceeding a global 2
The climate change debate raises the issue of often identified, but as yet little explored, requirement to incorporate climate policy into other policy sectors, often termed climate
This paper provides information on the sub-national areas (regions/districts/provinces) most vulnerable to climate change impacts in Southeast Asia. This assessment was carried out by overlaying climate hazard maps, sensitivity maps, and adaptive capacity maps following the vulnerability assessment framework of the United Nations
This disturbing report published by IUCN predicts that the physical, economic, social, and cultural impacts of global warming will jeopardize women far more then men.
Jyoti Parikh / New Delhi December 10, 2008, 0:55 IST A liability framework for adaptation funds should be set up by linking payments with emissions. Thousands of delegates are deliberating this week on climate change at Poznan, in Poland. While spectacular outcomes are not expected, Poznan will prepare the ground …
This report summarizes the findings and recommendations from the Expert Meeting on New Scenarios. Adhering to the catalytic role defined by the IPCC, the report thus describes the current state of planning by the scientific community for preparation of new scenarios. Noting it is a "work in progress", many of …
This report provides some overviews on the roles of climate scenarios in adaptation planning and what should be considered in using and generating climate scenarios, in a frequently ask questions style. Climate change profoundly affects the natural and social environment. Decision-makers and resource managers require information regarding future changes in …
Until recently, most assessments of the impact of climate change on the food and agriculture sector have focused on the implications for production and global supply of food, with less consideration of other components of the food chain. This paper takes a broader view and explores the multiple effects that …
When Barack Hussein Obama occupies the Oval office on January 20, 2009, he may go there with a strong India connection that has guided him through his formative years as a freshman senator
The IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, Working Group III, summarises in Box 13.7 the required emission reduction ranges in Annex I and non-Annex I countries as a group, to achieve greenhouse gas concentration stabilisation levels between 450 and 650 ppm CO2-eq. The box summarises the results of the IPCC authors
By Al Gore, The New York Times The world authority on the climate crisis, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, after 20 years of detailed study and four unanimous reports, now says that the evidence is 'unequivocal'. We must begin this January an emergency rescue of human civilisation from the …
