CSTEP organised a webinar to deepen the understanding of geographic information system (GIS) technology and its role in informed decision-making for adapting to climate change.
Puducherry, with its 45 km coastline, is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts such as sea level rise, coastal flooding, and cyclones.
COVID-19 is glaringly revealing the vulnerability of the systems we rely on.
Climate change increases strain on agriculture systems through changes in the magnitude, distribution, and timing of rainfall; rise in temperature; and an increase in the frequency of extreme weather events.
Power infrastructure, which includes assets for generation, transmission, and distribution of power, is vulnerable to manifestations of climate change.
Nine months into 2021, and India, a country with a population of about 1.
Urban air pollution is a complex problem, which requires a multi-pronged approach to understand its dynamics.
Climate change will amplify the existing risks and create new risks for natural and socio-economic systems.
The Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP)—a Bengaluru-based think tank—published a study on the climate of northern India titled ‘District-Level Changes in Climate: Historical Climate and Climate Change Projections for the Northern States of India’.
March 2023 was the second-warmest March for the world in the last 174 years, says the March 2023 Global Climate Report by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The relationship between climate change and migration is intricate.
Human mobility in the context of environmental impacts has been gaining increasing attention.
The first two articles of our ‘Under the Weather, On the Move’ blog series talked about the various considerations in conceptualising climate migration, and why migration is usually not the first adaptation strategy when facing a combination of climatic and non-climatic risks.
Cyclone Mocha — the first storm of 2023 in the North Indian Ocean — killed people, destroyed buildings, and caused economic losses in Myanmar, Bangladesh, Eastern India, and Sri Lanka.
The world is witnessing the increasing impacts of climate change at an alarming rate.
Come summer, we are used to seeing heat alerts from the India Meteorological Department (IMD) for various parts of India.
