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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)
COP-27: Act now
In 2022, almost every country in the world has been affected by natural disasters
Gurinder Kaur
Posted on 02 Dec, 2022 10:19 AM

The Conference of Parties-27 (COP-27) ended on November 20 in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh. This conference was supposed to last until November 18, but it ended on November 20 as no result was reached by November 18. In this conference, the item named 'Loss and Damages Fund' has been passed, which is being considered as a major achievement.
The the poor and developing countries are more affected by these climate change induced natural disasters than the rich and developed ones(Image: MaxPixel)
India joins Mangrove Alliance for Climate (MAC) at COP27
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Swati Bansal
Posted on 17 Nov, 2022 01:33 PM

India joins the newly formed Mangrove Alliance for Climate (MAC)
Mangroves in Sunderbans (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
Addressing climate change impact on horticultural production in central India
This study shows that while the area and production of horticultural crops in Madhya Pradesh has grown in the last decade the state is susceptible to climate change which may affect crop production in the future negatively
Gaurav Sharma
Amita Sharma
Nishant Kumar Sinha
Om Prakash Sharma
Ashutosh Singh
Ajai Kumar Pandey
Abhishek Kumar
Sudhir Kumar Trivedi
Bharti Sao
Mukesh Kumar Sahu
Posted on 14 Nov, 2022 06:10 PM

Climate change is one of the most complex and challenging environmental threat faced by the world and has been affecting ecosystems in major ways. It is predicted that the global temperature may rise by 1.5– 2.0  °C over the next decade and lead to increase in heat waves, longer warm seasons, and shorter cold seasons.

Climate change and agriculture
A farm in Madhya Pradesh during monsoon (Image Source: Rajarshi Mitra/Wikimedia Commons)
Children demand ecological rights ahead of COP-27
Children say ‘Nothing about us children without us children’
PRATYeK
Posted on 07 Nov, 2022 12:51 PM

Ahead of the Conference on Climate Change COP 27 at Egypt, PRATYeK, a registered organization with UN ECOSOC status, known for its national child led-advocacy initiative NINEISMINE, hosted an online event NO COP OUT on November 4 and 5, along with coalition partner
Millions of children face the brunt of climate change in their day to day lives. There Is No Planet B (Image: Blaine O'Neill; Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC 2.0)
Protecting children from climate change impact not child's play
In 2020, 559 million children were affected by four to five heatwaves a year; numbers could increase four-fold by 2050, as per a report by UNICEF
Gurinder Kaur
Posted on 06 Nov, 2022 06:57 PM

On October 25 2022, UNICEF released a report titled "The Coldest Year of the Rest of Their Lives: Protecting Children from Escalating Impacts of Heatwaves".
Heat-related mortality is four times higher among children under 1 year of age than in persons aged 1–44 years (Image: Taqver, Wikimedia Commons)
Climate Asia addresses concerns about climate change
A masterclass by Climate Asia on “Localisation of Economy from Climate Lens” talks of various aspects from the ground up.
Climate Asia
Posted on 02 Nov, 2022 07:38 AM

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Effects of climate change on this low-lying lands (UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe)
Shrinkage of aus rice in eastern India
A paper looks at the darker side of agricultural intensification - disappearance of autumn or aus rice, entry of high yield varieties, and implications in terms of environmental sustainability in West Bengal
Avik Ray
Posted on 12 Oct, 2022 02:43 PM

Agricultural intensification riding on the Green Revolution ushered bountiful production of selected staples (rice, wheat, maize) in the developing nations and caused a significant economic growth.
Rice has undergone an unprecedented rise in production and yield during the green revolution (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
Climate predictions and tipping points
United in science 2022: The world is heading in the wrong direction
World Meteorological Organization
UNDRR
Posted on 05 Oct, 2022 10:22 PM

Levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2 O) continue to rise.
Cities – responsible for up to 70% of human-caused emissions – will face increasing climate impacts (Image: cocoparisienne, Pixabay)
Dengue expands with climate change in India
Dengue is witnessing an alarming rise in India. And climate change induced changes are to blame. This study attempts to predict the present and future distribution of dengue vectors under different climate change scenarios in the country.
Hussain,S.S.A
Dhiman, R.C
Posted on 26 Sep, 2022 12:20 PM

Dengue is witnessing an alarming rise in India in recent years and the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (2020) data shows a five fold increase in cases of dengue from 28,066 cases in 2010 to 157,315 cases in 2019.

Dengue and climate change
Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, beginning its blood-meal (Image Source: James Gathany, CDC via Wikimedia Commons)
Renewable energy sector financing must go up to $600bn to meet 2030 goals
Investors deploying sizable capital as they are confident of India's long-run robust demand for renewable energy (8–10 GW/year)
Hemi H Gandhi
Bram Hoex
Brett Jason Hallama
Posted on 20 Sep, 2022 08:16 PM

India is amidst a monumental energy transition—with global consequences. India's population is primed to continuously grow, industrialize, urbanize, and electrify their lives.
RE tariffs will be determined by PV module costs and financing costs. (Image: ODT, Flickr Commons)
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