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Climate Change
Urgent action needed to embrace integrated water and climate policies
Posted on 12 Oct, 2021 11:31 AMWater-related hazards like floods and droughts are increasing because of climate change. The number of people suffering water stress is expected to soar, exacerbated by population increase and dwindling availability.
![Buildings and roads washed away, floods in Uttarkashi (Image: Oxfam International)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-10/disaster.jpg?itok=sHI00e8Z)
India needs a comprehensive emissions database
Posted on 10 Oct, 2021 01:35 PMIndia needs to develop and maintain a comprehensive inventory of baseline emissions to ascertain whether its policy and technological interventions are able to reduce air pollution, according to an independent
![Database needed to assess emissions from industries, power plants, road transport, domestic sources, and agricultural waste burning (Image: Pxfuel)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-10/air-pollution.jpg?itok=rbm2Kwkp)
Can weather index insurance be a win for all?
Posted on 08 Oct, 2021 03:25 PMDeveloping countries are already enduring the worst of climate change.
![Devastated onion farm during floods in Bihar, 2016. (Image: Dakshina Murthy/IWMI)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-10/wle.jpg?itok=lV3l8DxL)
300 organisations from across the globe call for no climate finance for hydropower
Posted on 06 Oct, 2021 10:06 PMHydropower is not fit for climate finance according to 300 organisations worldwide
![Gambhir dam near Ujjain (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-10/14086710650_66791ab4de_k_0.jpg?itok=1NcxWqr6)
Is climate action at scale a possibility?
Posted on 28 Sep, 2021 09:07 PMThe recently released report on climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has portrayed a devastating picture of the world that our
Global warming can spell doom for India's freshwater fish!
Posted on 24 Sep, 2021 11:12 PMFreshwater ecosystems such as rivers, lakes, ponds cover only 0.8 percent of the Earth’s surface, but are incredibly biodiverse. They harbour around ~15,000 fish species, corresponding to approximately half of the global known fish.
Human activities such as water abstraction, diversion, damming, and pollution are posing a threat to the survival of fish.
![Fish in the Tunga river at Sringeri (Image Source: Dineshkannambadi via Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-09/Fishes_in_the_Tunga_river_at_Sringeri.jpg?itok=PMSW0GQW)
India leads Asian countries in enacting the Plastics Pact
Posted on 08 Sep, 2021 09:41 AMIn launching its Plastics Pact, India becomes the first Asian country to do so
![Different types of plastic waste (Image source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-09/25774133008_3f63f165a4_c.jpg?itok=P5LzoDjM)
Study calls for securing water sustainability in Chennai
Posted on 01 Sep, 2021 01:43 PMWater stress has specifically magnified for metropolitan cities like Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, Pune, etc.
![These bright plastic jugs are ubiquitous in Chennai and Tamil Nadu. (Image: McKay Savage, Flickr Commons; CC BY 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-09/water%20tap.jpg?itok=XHU9_vCD)
Proactive action on green cooling to deal with the climate crisis
Posted on 20 Aug, 2021 10:58 AMIndia’s approval on ratification of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on
![Edited NASA PR image showing the ozone hole for 2014 over the south pole. Red is bad, blue is good, e.g., red means not as much ozone as blue. (Image: Stuart Rankin; CC BY-NC 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-08/ozone%20hole.jpg?itok=sDwHycQI)
Urban inequalities and heat risks in Delhi
Posted on 18 Aug, 2021 02:58 PMThe sixth assessment report by the United Nation's Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change released this week has issued dire warnings that have major implications for India.
![An aerial view of Delhi, August 2016. (Image Source: Sumita Roy Dutta via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-08/Urban%20heat%20islands.jpg?itok=4BZ3tc3A)