The Prime Minister has decided to constitute an Executive Committee on Climate Change to assist the Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change The Executive Committee on Climate Change would focus on the following tasks: 1. Assist the PM’s Council on Climate Change in evolving a coordinated response to issues relating to climate change at the [...]
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The Government of Nepal is hosting an International Conference on Mountains and Climate Change, as part of the Mountain Initiative, on 5-6 April 2012. The Conference will offer an excellent opportunity for mountain Governments and stakeholders to come together on a common platform to deliberate mountain issues and the wellbeing of mountain people, and attempt to [...]
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Many of the world’s rarest and richest forests, located in high-altitudes, could be all but wiped out by the combined impact of man-made climate change and habitat destruction. Study: An international scientific team has warned of the near-total loss of one of the world’s most delicate ecosystems, the Mexican cloud forest, along with 70 percent [...]
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The Economic Survey 2011-12 outlining Government’s assessment of the economy is tabled on 15th March 2012. Following are the highlights of Economic Survey 2011-12 : Rate of growth estimated to be 6.9%. Outlook for growth and stability is promising with real GDP growth expected to pick up to 7.6% in 2012-13 and 8.6% in 2013-14. Agriculture and Services [...]
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The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, according to NASA scientists. The finding continues a trend in which nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record have occurred since the year 2000. NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, which monitors global surface [...]
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AP Scientists have discovered a new culprit that is likely to have been involved in the Earth’s greatest extinction event that took place 250 million years ago when rapid climate change wiped out nearly all marine species and a majority of those on land. File photo In a new study, scientists have discovered a new [...]
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The U.N. weather office says world temperatures maintained a long-term upward trend and Arctic sea ice shrank to record low volumes this year.The report by the International Meteorological Organization, released in Geneva and at the U.N. climate talks on Tuesday, provided a bleak backdrop to negotiators seeking ways to limit pollution blamed for global warming. [...]
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The world is likely to build so many new fossil-fuelled power stations, energy-guzzling factories and inefficient buildings in the next five years that it will become impossible to hold global warming to safe levels, and the last chance of combating dangerous climate change will be “lost for ever,” according to the most thorough analysis yet [...]
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Contrary to prevailing scientific opinion, a Climate Change conference organised by theUniversityofMumbaiand the Liberty Institute,New Delhi, and INSTUCEN India study centre on October 14 claimed that the sea levels were not rising and carbon dioxide did not pose a special threat to the climate. Sea levels in the Indian Ocean were not rising and cities [...]
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will extend US $100 million loan for solar power initiatives inGujarat. The funds will be used for a substation, transmission lines and other equipment to collect and distribute solar power generated by plants in theCharankaSolarParkinGujarat’s Patan district. These facilities are a boon to the PV industry inIndia, andGujaratin particular, making [...]
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on August 22 called for finding technical and scientific solutions to complex problems affecting the society. Whether it is rapid urbanisation, climate change or energy security, our scientific and entrepreneurial energy should be channelled to spark a second green revolution, find new pathways for sustainable growth and living and make green [...]
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In the face of climate change, models being evolved for sustainable management of ecosystems Arctic scientists are working to evolve models for future sustainable management of Arctic ecosystems. The efforts attain significance in the wake of glaring signals — melting glaciers and climate change — in the Arctic region, said Bijoy Nandan, Associate Professor (Marine [...]
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Communities that manage the forests in Nepal are grappling with the vagaries of erratic rainfall, drought and depleting water for drinking and agriculture. While the people have adapted in some ways to the changing rainfall pattern and lack of water, migration has increased. An ICIMOD study on community perceptions and responses to climate change [...]
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The science plan of the Black Carbon Research Initiative National carbonaceous Aerosols Programme (NCAP) under the aegis of the Indian Network for Climate Change Assessment, INCCA will be launched on March 28. Based on the substantial groundwork which had been done led to identification of the science questions for the research invitations were finalized through [...]
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Picture: A Rare Frog. Perhaps for the first time in the country, researchers of the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment have initiated a project to monitor the presence of frogs and toads in the evergreen forests of the Western Ghats to preserve these endangered species serving as indicators of climate change. The [...]
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