Volume I Coping With Climate Change
An Analysis of India's National Action Plan on Climate Change
Global Approaches To Adaptation Planning
According to the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the impacts of climate change are increasing globally.
COUNTDOWN TO COP-23, BONN: Bonn climate talks are an opportunity. The world must come together to raise ambition despite the US pullout: CSE
Date: November 2, 2017
Stop the killing fields
This is our season of despair. This year, it would seem, the gods have been most unkind to Indian farmers. Early in the year came the weird weather events, like hailstorms and freak and untimely rains that destroyed standing crops. Nobody knew what was happening. After all, each year we witness a natural weather phenomenon called the Western Disturbance, winds that emanate from the Mediterranean and travel eastward towards India. What was new this year was the sheer “freakiness” of these disturbances, which brought extreme rain with unusual frequency and intensity.
To all our readers
YOU WILL NOTICE in this issue some big and small changes. This is our 530th issue, which means we have been researching, writing, designing and publishing Down To Earth for 22 years. Every fortnight our aim is to bring you news, perspectives and knowledge that can help you make a difference. Our objective is to prepare you to change the world. We believe information is a powerful driver for the new tomorrow.
Climate science in real world
What we desperately shut our minds to is once again being pronounced ever more clearly: climate change is here; it is already bringing devastating extreme weather events; it will become worse in the years to come. In late September, part 1 of the fifth assessment report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was released in Stockholm.
Weather dice is loaded
During my weekly conversation with my sister I told her about the unusual searing heat this June, the problems of power cuts and how we are coping in India. She, in turn, told me that in Washington DC, where she lives, there was a terrible storm that damaged her roof and uprooted trees in her garden. They were fortunate that they still had electricity, because most houses in the city were in the dark. She also said it was unbearably hot because the region was in the grip of an unprecedented heat wave.
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Current CDM design corrupt and 'unclean', says Indian NGO.
Demands reform at the next conference of parties so that CDM can 'work' to combat the threat of climate change
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NEGOTIATOR- July 96 Climate updates
Fossil Fuel Suicide Why fossil fools will cost us the Earth
November 17, 2000 The Kyoto Protocol will be a disaster of bigger proportions if it subsidises carbon-based energy through CDM. The world will then not achieve safe concentration levels until the end of the century. The world needs investments in R&D and policy changes that drive down fossil fuel subsidies in the North and the South Even a focus on energy efficiency will not work (see below)
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Equity Primer
SBI 14: Bonn, Germany
Press Release Biggest rogue of them all April 3, 2001 The world should declare the US a rogue nation for this act of extreme selfishness. And the Indian government should stop being a pushover.