While clean power generation is crucial, India’s energy transition requires concerted efforts from all actors in the power sector value chain.
Sea level rise (SLR) has been recognised as the most serious global threat.
Not a day or week passes without an extreme event such as a heat wave, high-intensity rainfall leading to floods and landslides, lack of rain or unseasonal rains destroying fruits and vegetable crops, or hurricanes striking coastal areas.
The Union Territory (UT) of Puducherry, comprising four regions, is primarily located in low-lying coastal and water-adjacent lands, making it highly vulnerable to climate change extremities and hazards such as droughts, heatwaves, floods, sea level rise (SLR), and coastal erosion.
Time series greenhouse gas emission estimates were prepared for the residential, commercial, agriculture and fisheries sectors in India, for the time period of 2005 to 2014, to understand the historical emission changes in these sectors.
The most vulnerable countries of the world had specific concerns going into the Paris meeting of the Conference of Parties on climate change.
With millions of refugees pouring into countries in Europe, renewed attention is being paid to those who are displaced.
In December 2015, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change notified emission standards for limiting sulphur oxides, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter and mercury emissions in coal-based thermal power plants.
Dr Anshu Bharadwaj, ED, CSTEP was the National Focal Point (NFP) at the 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP 22) organised by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
On a per capita basis, India is one of the lowest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world, yet it is threatened by the impact of global warming and climate change.
An efficient recycling ecosystem will greatly help in reducing the loss of critical materials.
The article explores the effects that India's climate policy will have in the context of the country's existing development problems India is expected to face severe challenges as a result of climate change and these will disproportionately affect the poor and the most vulnerable The country's current climate policies nevertheless adopt an approach that seems unlikely to improve conditions for the poor, unless it shifts from a top-down, growth-oriented strategy towards prioritizing access to basic goods and services as a primary policy goal.
The Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar, Shri Sushil Kumar Modi, launched the Patna Clean Air Action Plan (PCAAP) on 23 November 2019.
To increase the reliability of India's national emissions inventory, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) must consider developing 'country-specific' emission factors using real- time measurements across all sectors.
COVID-19 is glaringly revealing the vulnerability of the systems we rely on.
The link between rising levels of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and changing climatic patterns was first definitively put forth in 1898 by Svante Arrhenius, a Swedish scientist.
