State of the Climate in Asia 2024
<p>The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing
<p>The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing
The one sector which is running amok in terms of growth of emissions is transport. Between 1990 and 2005, the maximum increase in emissions of rich countries was in this sector
The world's forests are a key storehouse of carbon
It is now part of the carbon game: emitting but buying carbon credits to balance accounts. People fly to their holidays but buy some carbon
Land acquisition has united farmers
I have written this before and I want to repeat it again: The Western economic model which we are following with such keenness is a highly toxic model. Toxicity is inherent in it. It is built
They say the eye of the storm is calm. This is what I found when I visited the epicentre of war tensions in India, the city of Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir. This was a week when foreigners were
The Supreme Court has sug gested that the forested states, which lose revenue because of the ban on felling of trees should be compensated for keeping their forests intact. Protection of the
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) is responsible for planning, promoting, coordinating, and overseeing the implementation of environmental and forestry programmes in the country.
The Institute was formally established under the UNDP's Special Fund Project as the Institute of Tropical Meteorology (ITM) at Pune on November 17, 1962 as a distinct part of the India Meteorological Department (IMD). On April 1, 1971, the Government of India gave it an autonomous status with a new name as the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM).