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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Fluorinated greenhouse gases 2019
<p>The 2019 edition of the European Environment Agency (EEA) report on fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases) confirms the good progress achieved in 2018 by the European Union (EU) in phasing-down the
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New research finds slow climate progress in high-emitting industries
<p>New research by the Transition Pathway Initiative finds that 29% of the largest publicly-listed industrial companies are set to align their emissions with the Paris Pledges by 2030, up from 24% in mid-2018.These
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Record-setting ocean warmth continued in 2019
<p>Human-emitted greenhouse gases (GHGs) have resulted in a long-term and unequivocal warming of the planet. More than 90% of the excess heat is stored within the world’s oceans, where it accumulates
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Attribution of the Australian bushfire risk to anthropogenic climate change
<p>Disastrous bushfires during the last months of 2019 and January 2020 affected Australia, raising the question to what extent the risk of these fires was exacerbated by anthropogenic climate <a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/WWA-attribution_bushfires-March2020.pdf"
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Causes of higher climate sensitivity in CMIP6 models
<p>Equilibrium climate sensitivity, the global surface temperature response to CO$_2$ doubling, has been persistently uncertain. <a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/climate-sensitivity.pdf"
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Assessment of climate and development benefits of efficient and climate-friendly cooling
This report is the background document providing the basis for the Cooling Emissions and Policy Synthesis Report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Energy Agency (IEA)
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Governments still showing little sign of acting on climate crisis
Under current pledges, the world will warm by 2.8°C by the end of the century, close to twice the limit they agreed in Paris. Governments are even further from the Paris temperature limit in terms of their
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Climate, nature and our 1.5°C future: a synthesis of IPCC and IPBES reports
The Climate, Nature and our 1.5°C Future report brings together the findings of four recent authoritative reports on climate change and biodiversity from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on
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Flooded future: global vulnerability to sea level rise worse than previously understood
he Arabian Sea could begin entering and flooding most of Mumbai at least once every year by the year 2050, according to a new study that paints an alarming picture of what global warming-induced sea level
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India in a warming world: integrating climate change and development
Riven with scientific uncertainty, contending interests, and competing interpretations, the problem of climate change poses an existential challenge. For India, such a challenge is compounded by the immediate