High heat stress is making India’s cities unliveable, and it’s vital to devise ways to adapt to high urban temperatures across the country
With climate change leading to a rise in temperatures and rapid concretisation exacerbating urban heat island effect, it has become important to develop both mitigation and adaptation strategies to reduce and combat heat stress…Read More
Although air quality in New Delhi has improved marginally, NASA images show widespread burning of crop residue over central and south India, indicating higher air pollution across the country
The latest report card on New Delhi’s air pollution says that things have improved but burning of crop residue over central and south India is expected to lead to an increase in air pollution…Read More
The first summit of the International Solar Alliance in New Delhi in March is expected to speed up the global momentum of using renewable energy to mitigate global warming
As India gears up to host the first International Solar Alliance summit next month, efforts are underway to provide a momentum to solar deployments in over 120 sunshine countries…Read More
India will be able to provide its own climate model to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for its next assessment report scheduled to be released in 2022
With predictions of climate change suggesting an increase in extreme weather events, a rise in deaths by sudden events like thunderstorms and lightning and crop losses of up to 25%…Read more
Allocations for renewable energy and environment in India’s federal budget have left both the clean energy sector and conservationists unhappy
As Finance Minister Arun Jaitley rose in Parliament to present the last full budget of the present government before the run up to the general elections due in early 2019, it was clear that environment and climate change were not on his priority list…Read More
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