According to the report titled 4-degree Turn down the Heat: Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts, and the Case for Resilience (2013), The World Bank (please click here to access the report): • While covering a range of sectors, this report focuses on how climate change impacts on agricultural production, water resources, coastal zone fisheries, and coastal safety are likely to…
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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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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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The key findings of India’s Third Biennial Update Report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (released in February 2021), prepared by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, are as follows (please click here to access): • India’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (including LULUCF i.e. Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry) has almost doubled…
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The Executive Summary of the report entitled Assessment of climate change over the Indian region (released in June 2020), edited by R Krishnan, J. Sanjay, Chellappan Gnanaseelan, Milind Mujumdar, Ashwini Kulkarni and Supriyo Chakraborty, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Government of India, Springer Open (please click here to access) is provided below: Observed Changes in Global Climate…
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According to the Ministry of Environment, Government of India http://envfor.nic.in/cc/diduknow.htm:  A 1-metre rise in sea level would displace about 7 million people in India  Fossil fuel burning has contributed to most of the greenhouse gas emissions in the past 20 years.  The decade of the 1990s was the warmest, and 1998 was the warmest year on…
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According to Elucidation of the 4th National Report submitted to UNCCD Secretariat, 2010, Ministry of Environment and Forests, GoI, http://moef.nic.in/modules/divisions/desertification-cell/unccd-report.pdf: • India has a total geographical area (TGA) of 328.2 million hectares (mha) with drylands covering 228.3 mha (69.6%) of the total land area. • Within the drylands, arid area is 50.8 mha (15.8% of TGA),…
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KEY TRENDS • Extreme temperature shocks reduce farmer incomes by 4.3 percent and 4.1 percent during kharif and rabi respectively, whereas extreme rainfall shocks reduce incomes by 13.7 percent and 5.5 percent *& • It is estimated that to cover 50 percent (5 million ha) of the total acreage under rice-wheat cropping system (RWCS) in India, about 60000 Turbo Happy Seeders…
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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…
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