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06 Aug 2014 | 13:14 BST

Climate change policy: What’s new for Asia?

Posted by Subhra Priyadarshini | Categories: Climate Change, Environment, Policy

Climate change policy: What's new for Asia?

At a workshop discussing what the take homes for  Asian countries might be from the latest assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — AR5 — it was pointed out that there wasn’t enough science coming out of developing countries to feed the database on emissions or warming in the larger climate change debate. Local scientists need to conduct more climate change related experiments, write more scientific papers and bolster regional science  in order to make a case for these developing countries in the international discourse on climate change.  Read more

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  • IPCC
  • south asia

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14 Aug 2013 | 10:56 BST

Aerosols contributing to climate change in India, China

Posted by Subhra Priyadarshini | Categories: Climate Change, Environment, Pollution

Coal burning is one of the key contributors to aerosol emissions.

Our freelance writer Biplap Das dug out an interesting research paper from Geophysical Research Letters this week. Though the authors are from Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois; NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York; they have been working on the contribution of aerosols  to climate change in India and China.  Read more

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  • black carbon
  • climate change

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04 Dec 2012 | 13:24 GMT

Himalayas get climate funds

Posted by Subhra Priyadarshini | Categories: Climate Change, Environment

Himalayas get climate funds

The programme will start in 2013 and envisages using natural resources in a more sustainable, efficient way to protect the environment. According to a release by the organisations, the programme will try to do this by enhancing the knowledge base on Himalayan ecosystems and ecosystem services, raising awareness on the effects of environmental degradation, climate change and adaptation; strengthening collaborative action research in the region. It will also build capacity in higher education and train institutions and civil society across the region to scale up best practice for improved resilience to climate change.  Read more

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  • Hindu Kush-Himalayas

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09 Sep 2012 | 12:25 BST

Two degrees of concern

Posted by Subhra Priyadarshini | Categories: Climate Change, Environment

N H Ravindranath

At a recent meet of climate change communicators in Kathmandu, a documentary film called ‘A Degree of Concern’ by Syed Fayaz got the attendees talking animatedly. The film made in the last decade, projected a scenario in a distant future when one degree rise in temperature would play havoc with the glaciers, make agriculture unsustainable and, in short, impact every aspect of our life. It ended with an ominous and alarming warning: “Just one degree”. Though cinema-wise sound, the foremost criticism for the film was its poor scientific assumption — it relied on a baseline data of just three years, in which the temperatures in the freeze zones of upper Himalayas was found to be fluctuating increasing by two degrees every year. That was the basic flaw — a poor baseline.  Read more

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  • temperature rise

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26 Aug 2012 | 17:38 BST

Reporting climate change

Posted by Subhra Priyadarshini | Categories: Climate Change, Environment

The workshop

Climate change seems to be our favourite punch bag, whatever the calamity — droughts, failed monsoons, floods or cyclones. How much science goes into deciding which of these natural phenomena are an offshoot of the global climate change phenomenon? Is climate change reporting as robust (or weak?) as the scientific evidence to back accentuated glacial melts or sea level rise?  Read more

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  • environment
  • media
  • south asia

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29 Jun 2012 | 10:13 BST

Farm technology

Posted by Subhra Priyadarshini | Categories: Agriculture, Climate Change, Environment

Technology will play a key role in ensuring food security.

Climate change has affected farmers in so many ways, it’s difficult to count on your finger tips. The popular view on climate change altering crop patterns, skewing yields and changing regional economies has triggered the interest of most livelihood researchers over the last decade.  Read more

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  • climate change
  • technology

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