Page 139 - Climate Change

Global warming to cause productivity loss equal to 80 mn jobs by 2030: UN

A report from the International Labour Organization estimated that in 2030, 2.2% of total working hours worldwide will be lost because of higher temperatures

India making progress in achieving Paris pact goals to check climate change

India is progressing well as 28,000 mega watt of solar power has been installed and operationalised so far.

Climate change might be a greater threat to women, but data absent

Natural disasters, which are expected to increase due to climate change, also render women and girls vulnerable to sexual abuse and exploitation, particularly in contexts of pre-existing economically

Parenting in the changing climate: Demystify the concept of global warming

Psychologists say the way parents and teachers talk about climate change with children has an effect on their young psyches

G20 summit: It's Trump versus the rest again on climate change goal shift

Negotiators had worked through the night to try and reach agreement on the communique released Saturday after the G-20 summit

Learning to be vulnerable

As in almost all his novels, Mr Ghosh opens up new areas of discussion and debate

Glacier meltdown

The Himalayas are losing 8 billion tonnes of frozen water annually

Investors with $34 trn demand action on climate change ahead of G20 summit

Almost 200 nations agreed in Paris in 2015 to limit the global average temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times

In 'climate apartheid', rich will save themselves while poor suffer: UN

An over-reliance on the private sector could lead to a climate apartheid scenario: UN

600 million people at risk: Climate change may soon turn critical in India

Climate change is likely to make rainfall erratic, lead to rising seas and make extreme weather events, such as droughts, floods and heat waves-like the one currently sweeping large parts of India

How to ramp up global climate finance flows

Climate finance is indisputably a key pillar in enabling climate actions

Amitav Ghosh explains why it's impossible to not write about climate change

The rising heat - not only in Delhi but all over the world - is as much the theme of Gun Island as it is of his previous book, The Great Derangement

Climate change: Disappearing sea ice is changing Arctic Ocean's ecosystem

A whole ecosystem, rich in specialist species - many barely studied - is changing before our eyes

Climate change: Michael Bloomberg promises $500 mn into clean energy effort

The billionaire Bloomberg's investment in the Beyond Carbon initiative marks the largest ever philanthropic effort to combat climate change

Climate change is causing mass 'die-offs' in seabirds such as puffins

We need to ensure we have robust monitoring systems in place to document these depressing changes in bird numbers

Melting glaciers may add 10 inches to sea levels worldwide by 2100: Report

It estimates that glaciers worldwide are likely to lose anywhere from 18-36% of their mass by 2100

Fani's climate change fingerprint

What we need to understand is what Fani means in an increasingly climate-risked world

We meet more climate change observers than sceptics: EDN's Karuna Singh

Our analysis is that people at the ground level are not sensitised enough about the fact that they also must play a role for a better environment

The case for climate tariffs

A future US government could perhaps use tariffs, or the threat of them, to push other countries to reduce their emissions more aggressively

The heat is on: Climate change's impact on world explained in numbers

The faster melting of ice in the Himalayan region has always been a kind of benchmark to substantiate global warming effects