Page 146 - Climate Change

India's soft power in climate change

For long, India had urged developed countries to act more forcefully on climate change, while arguing that it needed technology and finance to adopt more climate-friendly pathways

Inspiring terms are simple. 'Climate change' isn't

The doubters and believers aren't even talking about the same thing

Revamp afforestation rules for climate justice

Indigenous peoples should be given major stake in managing compensatory afforestation funds. Otherwise, forest restoration will fail, jeopardising India's chances of achieving its Paris climate goals

So much for COP23, there's a whole class of carbon emissions we're ignoring

The most effective strategy is prevention, and a great deal can be done by designing our buildings with resource efficiency in mind

Climate change may reduce farm output, raise India's famished: Report

For every 100 mm drop in average rainfall, farmer incomes fall 15% during the kharif season and 7% during rabi, the survey said

India needs $2.5 trillion to meet its 2030 climate change targets: Centre

The current financial year allocation for two climate change schemes on climate change is Rs 1.41 billion

Five ways India must help its farmers to face the threats of climate change

Extreme temperature shocks, when a district is significantly hotter than usual, results in a 4.7% decline in agricultural yields

The future of golf and cricket is at risk due to climate change. Here's why

Wetter winters and coastal erosion linked to climate change are threatening the future of golf, a report backed by governing body the R&A warned on Wednesday. Golf is facing an increase in unplayable holes, winter course closures and disruption to professional tournaments due to increased rainfall, while rising sea levels could jeopardise all the world's coastal courses by 2100. Cricket is also facing "disruption at every level" of the game as a result of wetter winters and more intense summer downpours driven by climate change, said the report from Britain's Climate Coalition, which includes 130 organisations. Football is also affected, particularly at grassroots level, by adverse weather, while the Scottish skiing industry could collapse within 50 years as winters become too mild for regular snowfall. Extreme weather is made worse by climate change, causing more golf course closures, while wetter, warmer autumns and winters cause damage and disease to grass and ...

Climate change redux

India should turn away from the Paris accord as latest research shows particles from space, and not human activity, affect climate on Earth

Change is real: Letter to BS on climate has a cascading effect on lives

A warmer ocean affects another important food source - fish

Climate costs

Global average increases in temperature of two to three degrees may not seem completely unmanageable at first, but it means that the extremes of temperature will get that much worse

UN hails India, China's climate change fight when 'others are failing'

The G77 is the largest intergovernmental organisation of developing countries in the UN

Millions to get displaced due to climate change; nations need to be ready

By the middle of this century, experts estimate that climate change is likely to displace between 150 and 300 million people

Renewable energy can become India's sustainability model for world: Sweden

There are scopes for working together in the area, from public transport to waste-to-energy: Lars Ronnas

Climate change: In B'desh as river Chitra turns saline, mangroves appear

In parts of Bangladesh, especially along the Chitra river, mangrove forests are appearing as the river water turns saline

COP 23: Three ways cities are leading the fight against climate change

Cities across the world are increasingly incorporating living infrastructure, to deliver social, environmental and economic services to urban communities

Climate change: How its economic and political repercussions are ignored

The economic development of a country is directly linked to the availability of human and natural resources

Climate change costs a lot more than recognised

Most estimates ignore the sociopolitical repercussions

Climate change may be a stealthy killer for bamboo lemur; could starve them

Lemurs almost exclusively eat a single species of bamboo, including the woody trunk, known as culm

Climate change and urbanisation impact

The global temperature since 1860 is observed to have risen by 0.4 centigrade