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
Global Warming
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Discounting the future
What is the guarantee that the rules being set to control global warming will take India s economic interests into account?
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Blurred vision
Issues in which the economic interests of industrialised countries coincide with their ecological interests are acceptable in the UN; the rest is usually a sham
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WWW
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New opportunity to renew old orders
<p>In recent months, Delhi has seen unprecedented growth in star foreign visitors flying in by night to advise us on the impending dangers of climate change and hand out ‘how to’ manuals on reducing the threat.
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Hot Air
<p><strong>Poznan is cold, a little less than it was expected.</strong></p> <p><strong>And the delegates are to be kept warm</strong></p> <p> </p>
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Doha: inaction in the face of urgency
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Is it time for Asia to abandon the dream of an effective multilateral climate treaty and adopt new approach?
<p><em>For growing economies the stress has to be on patterns of natural resource use and not on the status of natural resources; that is, dealing with the causes rather than the symptoms of the problem
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The Power of Poop
The Power of Poop (and other ways to save the world!) is a half-hour cartoon musical with the big ambition of caring for the planet while having fun too. <iframe id="distrify-player-5893" class="distrify-player"
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Decoding climate change risks
<p><strong><img alt="" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/media/iep/homepage/msanwal_blog.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 117px;" /></strong></p> <p><strong>Small changes in urban human behavior
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Receding glaciers in Pakistan
Glaciers that feed the Indus River in Pakistan’s Karakoram mountains are melting faster than previously thought. Saleem Sheikh talks to the scientists behind the latest field research that contradicts earlier satellite studies showing glaciers are relatively stable.