The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Climate change is global in its causes and consequences. Through advanced modelling, patterns of change in the world climate have been observed over time. These model results have shown that compared to the pre-Industrial era, the world temperature has warmed by half a degree centigrade. The major causes for this …
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the impact of climate change on food production in a typical low-income developing country. Furthermore, it provides an estimation of the determinants of adaptation to climate change and the implications of these strategies on farm productivity. The analysis relies on primary data from …
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 paper provides a conceptual backdrop for urban economic impact assessment of climate change and its specific aim is to provide both a conceptual and a methodological framework for OECD work in this area. The scope includes the assessment of the potential incidence and economic cost associated with changes in …
International proposals to protect forests as a way of tackling climate change could displace millions of indigenous people and fail to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, environmentalists warn. In a report, Friends of the Earth International (FOE) argue that current plans to slow the decline of forests by making rich …
This study sought to identify the initial impact that a global Cap and Share scheme might have on India, based on a set of limiting assumptions. In particular, it attempts to quantify the immediate impact
Priscilla Jebaraj POZNAN: The mood at the United Nations climate change talks here seem to reflect the weather. At the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change meet in Bali last year, the sweltering weather was a convenient motif both for global warming and the heat of arguments as negotiators scrambled …
Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi December 03, 2008, 1:25 IST The global climate change talks, the latest round of which started yesterday at Poznan in Poland under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), are already confronting first of their failures since the participating countries chalked out the …
At the simplest level, weather is what is happening to the atmosphere at any given time. Climate is a measure of what to expect in any month, season or year, and is arrived at using statistics built up from observations over many years. All aspects of the Earth
Eastern Uttar Pradesh, in the foothills of the Nepal Himalayas, has been prone to floods for centuries. In the last 60 years, however, their frequency has increased dramatically. People living in the region have slowly developed ways to cope with the floods. These adaptive measures had not been documented until …
Accelerating climate change poses a danger to the future health, safety, and livelihoods of people worldwide. Especially vulnerable are those who live in poverty. Rapid economic expansion in Asia and the Pacific has brought substantial benefits to the region
Current estimates of the cost of the impacts of climate change in developing countries and of the needed adaptation measures are in very short supply, and the available ones are rather crude. To a large extent this is because this is a very new research area and no agreed methodology …
After taking a back seat to mitigation, adaptation to climate change has come of age. It is now one of the four more or less co-equal pillars of the 2007 UN climate talks
