climate change

urban heat islands, India Cooling Action Plan, MoEFCC, environment ministry, climate change, global warming, Energy Conservation Building Code, air conditioning, right to air conditioning, Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, IPCC, 1.5 degrees celsius, afforestation

Environment Ministry’s Cooling Action Plan Is a Good Start but Not Good Enough

Parul Kumar 25/10/2018

The ICAP alludes vaguely to “targeted programmes to enable...

Low-cost solar lamps.

Can India’s Solar Revolution Help Meet Its Paris Agreement Emission Goals?

Karthikeyan Hemalatha 23/10/2018

Activists and experts say that for India to meet...

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Cultural Heritage Has a Lot to Teach Us About Climate Change

Cathy Daly, Jane Downes and William Megarry 17/10/2018

While cultural heritage sites are under threat from rising...

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We Can Limit Human-Induced Global Warming to 1.5℃, but It Will Be Painful

Keith Shine 13/10/2018

Achieving the 1.5℃ target will require anthropogenic CO₂ emissions...

afforestation, MoEFCC, climate change, carbon sink, IPCC, UNFCCC, drought, flooding, Palmer drought severity index, biomass

Climate Change Is Reducing the Ability of Forests to Store Carbon

Lalitha Krishnan 13/10/2018

India has said it will boost its carbon sink...

An aerial view of a flooded area in Kerala, August 19, 2018. Photo: Reuters/Sivaram V

India Lost $79.5 Billion to Natural Disasters in 20 Years: UN Report

Yoshita Singh 11/10/2018

The report titled 'Economic Losses, Poverty and Disasters 1998-2017'...

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 2018 Kerala floods, 2015 Chennai floods, Chembarambakkam lake, water scarcity, Stone Age tools, human migration, aridification, landfills, garbage dump, flooding, drought, climate change, paddy cultivation

Tamil Nadu’s Chembarambakkam Lake Foretells an Aridity in the Sands of Time

Anupama Chandrasekaran 10/10/2018

“People have left Chennai because of war, they’ve left...