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, …
Researchers are running out of time to finish updating an important U.S. climate change model that has been hamstrung by the budget woes of its home institution, the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
The caution issued by the chief scientific adviser to the United Kingdom's Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on a dangerous four-degree Celsius rise in global average temperature above pre-industrial levels should serve as a fresh alert to governments. The scientific consensus on global average temperature increase during …
As the world heats up, the sea levels are rising. Many experts warn that dramatic sea-level rise is global warming's biggest danger. Two main factors are behind this: thermal expansion of the ocean and melting Ice. First, as the ocean gets wanner from global warming, its volume expands. This is …
Is global warming causing more extreme weather? Many people seem to think that the last decade's heat waves, hurricanes and droughts did not happen just by chance, but were linked to the phenomenon of global warming. In 2003, for instance, a ferocious heat wave settled unexpectedly across Europe and killed …
Time is fast running out to stop irreversible climate change, a group of global warming experts warns today. We have only 100 months to avoid disaster. Andrew Simms explains why we must act now - and where to beginAndrew Simms Planet earth viewed from space. Photograph: Corbis If you shout …
The Food and Agriculture Organisation has issued a caution on the repercussions of climate change on fisheries and aquaculture. It is that the changes seen in the seas and oceans will have direct implications for food security. This is particularly relevant to developing countries where about 42 million people work …
NEW DELHI: R.K. Pachauri, chairman of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has asked the developed nations to get serious about reducing carbon emissions before it is "too late.' "Continued greenhouse gas emissions will lead to further [global] warming of 1.8 degree Celsius to 4 degree Celsius over …
NEW DELHI: The Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has hoped that the ongoing G8 Summit in Japan would address the issue of biofuel policies, including subsidy that was contributing to the rising food prices, which could push an additional 100 million people into poverty. Talking to journalists here on …
By Prem Shankar Jha This is one occasion for the world to act to avert the threat posed to humanity by global warming. All of India is watching the G-8 summit, which started in Hokkaido on Sunday. The reason is simply its expectation that this is where , barring a …
New Delhi, July 8: Nobel Prize winning Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chief Dr R.K. Pachauri says Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), which has been reluctant in accepting IPCC's predictions on climate change, has unsatisfactory state of affairs. Dr Pachauri is one of the members of Prime Minister's council on …
A global report card on nations doing the most, and least, to clean up the environment. Greens could learn a lot from Franklin Roosevelt about how to track imminent environmental disasters. It may seem hard to believe in this age of data overload, but on the eve of the Great …
Melting polar ice caps could cause sea levels to rise by up to 25 metres, causing Bangladesh to disappear entirely under water by the turn of the century, according to predictions of climate change by the US government's NASA space agency. One of the UK's prominent newspapers, the Independent, reported …
China and India are increasingly keen to be seen to be tackling climate change; though it is dirtier, China is making a more convincing show of action Since 2006 the railway line across the Tibetan plateau (above) has been carrying passengers and freight across a landscape of snow-covered peaks and …
- A goal to halve planet-warming carbon emissions by 2050, similar to an aim Japan is urging G8 leaders to agree next month, would add $45 trillion to global energy bills, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday. "It's a lot of money," IEA analyst Peter Taylor told a meeting …
Lennart Bage, President, IFAD The full impact of the present food crisis is still unknown. What is certain is that its origins are much older than perceived. One of the three UN agencies whose role is to avert food crises like this is the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). …
More than 100,000 people, according to unofficial estimate, are feared dead after cyclone Nargis tore through Myanmar late May 2 night. Another 43,000 people were missing four days after the disaster. For over 10 hours, wind travelling upto 241 km per hour swept through the Irrawaddy delta region
even though the earth is heating up there could be some relief, say recent studies. And we have to thank the Atlantic Ocean for this respite. Researchers at Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, Kiel, Germany, who studied the Atlantic say the ocean's natural phenomenon could slow down global warming. The …
While studies indicate that global temperatures may not increase over the next decade, there is no respite for the Arctic sea ice, this year at least. There are very high chances, about 60 per cent, that the ice may shrink below the record minimum seen last year, says a press …
Professor at Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Anders Levermann's interests range from monsoon in India to glacier melt in Antarctica. He has contributed to the fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released last year. He talks to Mario D'Souza on the geopolitics of climate …
Global temperature rises should be kept well below the European Union's target of 2 degrees Celsius to avoid costly damage to people and their lifestyles, according to a European Parliament report. European consumers must be given better information about the "carbon footprint" of goods they buy, including products imported from …
