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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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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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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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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