NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US President Barack Obama agree on a partnership to combat climate change, particularly reducing the use refrigerants like #HydroFluoroCarbons (HFCs). The United States has taken the lead to forge a consensus to allow for discussions on phasing out the use of HFCs under the #MontrealProtocol the UN-sponsored agreement […]

By Nilima Choudhury India’s vulnerability to extreme weather was exposed this week when floods killed at least 130 people with thousands reported missing. The monsoon arrived early in the northern state of #Uttarakhand , bringing with it 375% more rain than in previous years. The sheer weight of water that hit an area known as India’s […]

[Delhi – India] – June 19, 2013 – #ClimateChange will overturn hard won gains in reducing poverty in #SouthAsia as changing weather patterns make accessing water and food resources even more difficult, according to a new report released by the #WorldBank today. Extreme weather such as heat waves, devastating floods and droughts, and more intense […]

While the world is waking up to the news of the horrific scale of the recent flood disaster in the #Mahakali basin of Nepal and #Uttarakhand in India, several questions are being asked: what kind of climatic events led to this disaster? Could anything have been done to reduce the loss of life and property? […]

The First Place #FossilOfTheDay is awarded to Poland. Back home in Poland, Environment Minister Korolec, revealed the country’s position on the #Doha talks –  claiming the carryover of AAU credits is NOT a priority issue, but that the length of the second commitment period and the obligations contained in the Kyoto Protocol are. We should remind […]

The First Place #FossilOfTheDay is awarded to Turkey. Although Turkey is the world’s fourth largest investor in coal, recording the largest relative increase in annual GHG emissions between 1990–2010 with Ankara declaring 2012 the year of coal, Turkey is asking for more funds in the climate negotiations. This is even though Ankara did not post […]

The First Place #FossilOfTheDay is awarded to USA, Canada, Russia, Japan and New Zealand for running away from a legally binding, multilateral rules based regime.  To the USA seriously, get over your exceptionalism and agree to common accounting rules already.  Canada you are exceptional in ways we cannot communicate diplomatically during a fossil presentation, but it […]

Download Here Natural hazards are no strangers to a majority of South Asians. The region is periodically afflicted by inundated deltas, parched plains, flooded urban sprawl, severe droughts, cyclone-hit crops, and eroding beaches and riverbanks. South Asia experiences every conceivable weather-related disaster. The region is also a melting pot of poverty, wars, accidents, and other […]

Download Here The relationship between trade and climate change has come under increasing attention as the urgency of national, regional, and global actions intensifies with predictions of climate change impacts getting ever grimmer. The relationship has several dimensions: for example, the physical impacts of trade on climate change and vice versa; linkages between climate change […]

Download Here Climate change has emerged as a threat to the entire globe and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has iterated that it needed immediate action to prevent it otherwise it would lead to mass destruction (IPCC, 2007). A majority of nations, particularly developing nations, of the world have been affected and their […]