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April 30, 2024
India boils as heat soars!
As temperatures soar, what should India do to adapt to changing conditions to mitigate the adverse impacts of climate change?
Heat waves sweep across India (Image: Maxpixel, CC0 Public Domain)
April 25, 2024
The heat is on: Invisible, unprecedented, and screaming for new solutions
Understanding the impact of heat on our world
Rising temperatures, rising risks (Image: Kim Kestler, publicdomainpictures.net)
March 30, 2024
India needs gender responsive strategies to cope with climate change impacts
A recent study finds that climate change induced extreme weather events such as droughts can increase the vulnerability of women to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV).
Droughts affect women the most (Image Source: Gaurav Bhosale via Wikimedia Commons)
December 8, 2023
GenAI could accelerate global warming and climate change
Climate change is the focus at COP28: Technology must be included in the dialogue
An artist's illustration of artificial intelligence (Image: Google Deepmind, Pexels)
November 13, 2023
What factors hinder the uptake of climate-smart agricultural practices among women?
Policy and implementation gaps in reaching women farmers with climate-smart agriculture practices
There is a need to enhance extension services to women (Image: India Water Portal Flickr)
November 5, 2023
Weather-related natural disasters likely to impact sustainability initiatives
Honeywell’s environmental sustainability index, a quarterly index reveals a growing number of organisations globally are boosting annual sustainability investments by at least 50%, and are optimistic about achieving short- and long-term objectives
Environmental Sustainability Index gauges movement in corporate sentiment and investment on the sustainability front. (Image: Needpix)
The how, what, when of climate change: Background and basics
A brief introduction to the concepts of climate change and global warming
Rama Mani
Posted on 29 Aug, 2009 02:09 PM

Climate Change is a significant change in temperature, wind patterns and precipitation that occurs over a long period of time. Some of these changes occur in cycles over decades, hundreds, thousands and millions of years; some could be random occurrences.
Government of India's national action plan on climate change (NAPCC)
The developed countries (known in Climate Change parlance as Annexe 1 countries), have taken greater responsibility for mandated GHG cuts. Hence, developing countries like India were not too bothered about climate change, its impact, and what needed to be done. But in the long term, especially as in the case of a large country like India, a large population would increase consumption exponentially as it developed.
Rama Mani
Posted on 29 Aug, 2009 12:08 PM

This would lead to a drastic increase in GHG emissions. There is the need to make a choice for a low-carbon path, even if there is no mandated reduction in GHG emissions.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Constituents, working groups and compilation of resources relating to the IPCC
The IPCC is a scientific body; the information it provides with its reports is based on scientific evidence and reflects existing viewpoints within the scientific community.
Rama Mani
Posted on 29 Aug, 2009 10:58 AM

When climate change was first posited as "real" people all over the world realized that this issue encompasses the inter linkage of several other issues. The scope and magnitude of the consequences of climate change are also very far reaching.
The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice: A subsidiary body to the UNFCCC
The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) regularly undertakes work on methodological and scientific matters as they relate to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol process.
Rama Mani
Posted on 29 Aug, 2009 10:37 AM

Some of the issues the SBSTA is currently dealing with are land use, land-use change and forestry, adaptation, mitigation, research, systematic observation and bunker fuels.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change sets an overall framework for intergovernmental efforts to tackle the challenge posed by climate change.
Rama Mani
Posted on 29 Aug, 2009 09:58 AM

Over a decade ago, most countries joined an international treaty – the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – to begin to consider what can be done to reduce global warming and to cope with whatever temperature increases are inevitable.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: The Berlin Mandate
The Conference of the Parties in Berlin, Germany, held in 1995, was the first after the Climate Change Convention went into force.
Rama Mani
Posted on 28 Aug, 2009 05:43 PM

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was opened for signature at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) conference known as the Earth Summit.
Films & video resources relating to the Kyoto Protocol
Here's a list of short films and videos on the Kyoto Protocol
Rama Mani
Posted on 28 Aug, 2009 05:36 PM

After Kyoto
27 Minutes: English
Compilation of references on the The Kyoto Protocol
A short compilation of resources and web-links on the Kyoto Protocol which deals with the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by developed countries.
Rama Mani
Posted on 28 Aug, 2009 05:25 PM

1. Kyoto Protocol - Wikipedia
2. Encyclopedia of Earth - Click here
The Kyoto Protocol: Mandate, mechanisms and revisions
The Kyoto Protocol is a landmark agreement reached at the Conference of the Parties (COP 3) in Japan. It derives its name after the city, Kyoto, in Japan, where the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference - COP 3 was held in December 1997. Industrialized countries agreed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions as per levels specified in the treaty.
Rama Mani
Posted on 28 Aug, 2009 04:57 PM

Mandated Quantified GHG Emissions Reduction
References of impact of climate change on health
A list of quick references of the impact of climate change on health
Rama Mani
Posted on 28 Aug, 2009 04:44 PM

1. Climate change and diseases: A double Jeopardy
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