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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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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According to the Policy Brief on crop residue burning by National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) entitled Innovative Viable Solution to Rice Residue Burning in Rice-Wheat Cropping System through Concurrent Use of Super Straw Management System-fitted Combines and Turbo Happy Seeder (October, 2017) (please click here to access):
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According to the report entitled: Statistics Related to Climate Change-India 2015, prepared by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, please click here to access: • India’s share of CO2 in the total emissions in the world is very insignificant in per capita terms. The per capita emission of an Indian citizen is 1.2 tons of CO2 whereas…
Read MoreThe graph below shows the share of different sectors (Industry, Agriculture, Forestry etc.) in total GHG (green house gas) emissions in 2004 in terms of CO2-eq*. (Forestry includes deforestation). Global GHG emissions due to human activities have grown since pre-industrial times, with an increase of 70 percent between 1970 and 2004 time bomb 1 Source:…
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According to Compendium of Environment Statistics India 2008-2009, produced by Central Statistical Organization (CSO),http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/comp_env_2008-09.pdf: According to the Report of the Committee to Evolve Road Map on Management of Wastes in India, Ministry of Environment and Forests, New Delhi, March, 2010, http://moef.nic.in/downloads/public-information/Roadmap-Mgmt-Waste.pdf: According to the report The State of World Population 2009 (UNFPA): Facing a changing…
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KEY TRENDS • In 8 out of 17 states/ UTs the flood management works were not taken up in an integrated manner covering entire river/ tributary or a major segment of rivers/ tributaries and the Preliminary Project Reports/ Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) were not prepared in accordance with the scheme guidelines. There were huge delays…
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Please click here to access the report by Central Water Commission entitled Flood Damage Statistics (state-wise and for the country as a whole) from 1953 to 2016 (released on 10th May, 2018) Flood is one of the natural calamities that the country faces almost every year in varying degree of magnitude. The frequent occurrence of flood can be…
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