Natural Resource Management
The key findings of the policy brief titled The costs of climate change in India: A review of the climate-related risks facing India, and their economic and social costs (released in June 2021) prepared by Angela Picciariello, Sarah Colenbrander, Amir Bazaz and Rathin Roy, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), are as follows (please click here to access): • India is…
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Soil and Water Conservation
Please click here and here to access the main findings of the WMO State of the Global Climate in 2021 report (released in May, 2022). —The key takeaways of the report Drought in Numbers 2022: Restoration for Readiness and Resilience (released in May, 2022), which has been prepared by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), are as follows (please click…
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Disaster Preparedness
Kindly click here, here and here to access the Christian Aid report titled Counting The Cost 2022: A year of climate breakdown, published in December 2022. — The key findings of the report titled Global EV Outlook 2022: Securing supplies for an electric future, produced by International Energy Agency and others, are as follows (please click here and here to access): India-specific findings: Electric car sales…
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Natural Resource Management
According to Climate change: Building the resilience of poor rural communities by IFAD, http://www.ifad.org/climate/factsheet/e.pdf • Between 15 and 37 per cent of land plants and animal species could become extinct by 2050 as a result of climate change • Emissions of greenhouse gases have increased, on average, by 1.6 per cent per year over the past 30 years • Agriculture and…
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According to the SAARC-India Country Report 2015: Statistical Appraisal, produced by Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), Government of India (please click here to access) • The consumption of fertilizer has shown an increasing trend in India. Between 2006-07 and 2011-12, the consumption of fertilizers has increased by 23 percent. The per hectare consumption of chemical fertilizers…
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Please click here and here to access the report entitled Organic and Natural Farming in India: Challenges and Possibilities (released on 8th September, 2020) by Centre for Science and Environment. —- Please click here, here and here to access the key findings of the study entitled Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Agriculture and Food Security in India (released on 20th May, 2020), which has been done…
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The IPCC is now in its sixth assessment cycle, in which the IPCC is producing the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) with contributions by its three Working Groups and a Synthesis Report, three Special Reports, and a refinement to its latest Methodology Report. The Working Group-III contribution, Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change was released…
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Please click here to access the Press release by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) dated 9th August, 2021. Kindly click here to access the regional fact sheet for Asia, which we get from the Working Group I report of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Kindly click here to access the Summary for Policymakers (SPM) that presents the key findings of the Working Group…
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The key findings of the policy brief titled The costs of climate change in India: A review of the climate-related risks facing India, and their economic and social costs (released in June 2021) prepared by Angela Picciariello, Sarah Colenbrander, Amir Bazaz and Rathin Roy, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), are as follows (please click here to access): • India is…
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