The extreme heavy monsoon rain in Chennai this November highlights the city’s vulnerability to climate change and also the skewed development that has upset the fragile environmental balance and made it prone to floods
Life in Chennai, the bustling south Indian metropolis, ground to a halt mid-November as the heaviest rainfall in more than a decade led to floods and boats being taken out to rescue people…Read more
With world leaders scheduled to meet next week to agree upon joint actions to tackle climate change, will nuclear energy play an important role in climate discussions for a low carbon growth
The Paris climate summit will carry a whole lot of significance. With the levels of global carbon emissions increasing significantly, COP21 has been touted as a ‘make or break’ summit to come up with a consensus on curbing greenhouse gas…Read more
chinadialogue asked Teng Fei, one of China’s foremost experts on climate and energy policy, how the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter can go on a low-carbon diet
chinadialogue interviewed Teng Fei, an expert on China’s climate and energy policy and associate professor at the Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy at Tsinghua University, on how China can make big cuts in its greenhouse gas…Read more
Ten days before it hosts a key UN summit, France’s foreign minister and special climate envoy have started a four-country tour in an effort to ensure a Paris deal
“We are in New Delhi to pay a visit to a particularly important country,” said Laurent Fabius, France’s foreign minister. “India is a key player and it is important that we understand exactly what is India’s approach to climate negotiations…Read more
Scientists are now sure of the correlation between global warming and human health, but big knowledge gaps remain, not least because climate and health researchers are rarely in touch with one another
India needs to address the huge gap between climate forecasters and health experts to be better prepared for the health impacts of warming temperatures, and devise sound…Read more
