As climate change intensifies, it is imperative for policymakers to address the escalating loss and damage it inflicts on vulnerable communities in developing countries. In India's Maharashtra state, these impacts are forcing rural families into life-altering decisions and migrations to work in sugarcane fields, where exploitative practices by contractors, including …
The government will soon come out with an exhaustive manual for practical management of drought mitigation and relief measures. The drought manual is expected to prove an effective practical guideline for administrators, experts and civil society in implementing drought mitigation and relief measures and for alleviating distress of the drought-affected …
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and local Indian institutions in Andhra Pradesh are addressing the gender aspects of coping with climate variability and longterm change within the project Gender-sensitive Strategies for Adaptation to Climate Change: Drawing on Indian Farmers
BHUBANESWAR: A central team will visit the State from January 6 to assess the drought situation. The team will tour different areas declared drought affected by the State Government. The Government has submitted a memorandum to the Centre demanding Rs 2,257 crore from the National Calamity Contingency (NCCF) to deal …
With Claims For 2008-09 Crop Year Pending, Wait Gets Longer For The Affected Prabha Jagannathan NEW DELHI FARMERS covered under the National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (NAIS) will have to wait another year to receive their claims despite 316 districts in 13 states being declared drought-hit this year. Close to 50% …
BHUBANESWAR: Is desertification process in Orissa already on? The answer appears to be yes if one goes by the latest report of Space Application Centre, Ahmedabad that has bracketed Orissa among top five States facing
Spurred on by clearance of a special package for Bundelkhand region, the National Research Centre for Agro-Forestry (NRCAF) will soon recommend its watershed experiment in the 13 drought-prone districts of the region to tackle water scarcity there. As the problems in Garhkundar-Dabar in Tikamgarh district of Madhya Pradesh were identical
The Union Cabinet on Thursday cleared a special package worth Rs 7,266 crore for the implementation of a drought mitigation strategy over a three-year period starting 2009-10 for the development of 13 districts in the Bundelkhand region.
As world leaders struggle to hash out a new global climate deal by December, they face a hurdle perhaps more formidable than getting big polluters like the United States and China to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: how to pay for the new accord. This is the first article in a …
Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday stressed the need for enhanced public-private partnership in an early warning and effective emergency response system to mitigate the effects of disaster. He was addressing at the inaugural ceremony of the conference organised by National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), marking fourth anniversary …
The ongoing global climate change (CC) has already caused a grave concern to the country's agriculture, irrigation, navigation, ecology, bio-diversity, weather, environment and underground water levels, concerned experts said. As a result, rainfalls, floods, cyclones, droughts, cold and hot spells, sea and surface warming, water contamination, water and soil salinity, …
Environment Ministers from about 190 nations gather in Copenhagen at the end of the year to try and agree to a broader global pact to fight climate change partly spurred by scientists' bleak findings in 2007 about likely heatwaves, floods, desertification and rising sea levels. Following are highlights of that …
A U.N. climate deal to in Copenhagen in December will also be vital to guide trade and development policies, Denmark's Prime Minister said on Thursday. Lars Lokke Rasmussen told Reuters he hoped that a summit of world leaders at U.N. headquarters on September 22 would be a "tipping point" to …
Speakers at a function here have said that the country had been experiencing dismal climate change causing a grave concern to agriculture, food, human health, irrigation, navigation, soil, bio-diversity, environment, livelihood and water levels. " The increasing trends of tidal surge, cyclone Sidr and hurricane, tsunami, fluctuation in temperature, irregular, …
The rising temperature may result in significant reduction in the Gross Domestic Product of Bangladesh which is part of the Himalayan system, apart from the risk the country is facing of losing 18 per cent of its land due to the rising water level of the oceans. Terming Bangladesh one …
In the face of one of the most fundamental challenges - global warming - the government should adopt policy changes, take initiatives and prepare for effective representation at the Road to Copenhagen (COP 15). This conclusion was drawn at a workshop arranged by the ministry of environment in collaboration with …
Europe could pay poor countries up to 15 billion euros ($22 billion) a year by 2020 to persuade them to help battle climate change, the European Union's executive arm said on Thursday. Developing countries say industrialized nations should shoulder most of the cost of tackling a problem they caused in …
Prospects for a new U.N. climate pact in Copenhagen have brightened but negotiations must speed up to meet a December deadline, the head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat said on Tuesday. Yvo de Boer said moves by countries including Japan, China and India to curb greenhouse gases had helped …
Scientists and researchers at a dialogue in Rajshahi on Monday categorically stated that the industrial and richer nations are responsible for the climate change and they should take effective decisions right now to face the adverse impact of climate change and other environmental degradations. They viewed that the climate change …
