climate change

The UN’s push for the global-level climate summit seeks to achieve breakthrough in the ambitious target of limiting global temperature rise by 1.5 degree Celsius by the target year 2050 and possibly a complete halt to GHG emissions by the…

The story with Angaan Ching is of local community coming out in a concerted effort to bring back the once-fully scrapped hillock to its near natural status. With Angaan Ching, the Alliance for Development Alternatives Manipur (ADAM) has…

At the end of the day, the term ‘adaption’ comes down to the level of the local communities’ understanding on how to adapt to their local conditions as best as their traditional knowledge and wisdom permits, adapting to a fast changing…

The ‘Loss and Damage’ concept refers to the “permanent effects of climate change beyond what can be adapted to”. The reference goes its way out on stating that the effects can be ‘slow or rapid, economic or not’. By Salam Rajesh…

Climate change process is considered in a long term time scale, say going beyond thirty and fifty years to millennia, and therefore the strategies to be adopted by the States need to look beyond the next three to five decades, and more.…

The core focus emerging from the argument pitching for peatlands is that this wetland type is the largest natural terrestrial carbon store. Peatlands store more carbon than all other vegetation types in the world combined. By Salam…

During August in 2019, many parts of the world experienced extreme temperature rise to scale the 50 degree Celsius mark. During 2021, many parts in India experienced heat waves with the temperature fluctuating between 46 to 50 degree…

Big-time companies disclosing their emission level and finding solutions for limiting the emission is absolutely required in terms of the urgency in tackling the ever increasing temperature rise globally By Salam Rajesh   The…

The warnings are fair and loud enough – if climate targets are not met within this decade and the next, the world community will face unprecedented weather and climate extremes that could ravage life and properties beyond repair, so to say.…

With predicted changes in rainfall pattern and erratic weather conditions in the Northeast region, obviously influenced by changes in micro climatic regime as in the Himalayas, it is not too late for the Government to come up with immediate…