Climate Change

Nepali Foreign Minister Arzu Rana Deuba said that the participants in the Sagarmatha Sambaad have expressed their commitment to Nepal on the issue of climate change. Addressing a press conference following the first day's engagement of…
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Global energy consumption has increased by more than 30% in the last two decades and is projected to grow by a third more in the next two decades. With per capita incomes on the rise across the world and the subsequent rise in energy…
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Developed by the Academic Network on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Policy, with support from UNFPA, this paper highlights the links between climate change and sexual and reproductive health and rights in Eastern Europe and…
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A report highlights how 60 per cent of the best banana growing areas globally are in danger from rising temperatures. “Climate change has been killing our crops,” remarked Aurelia Pop Xo, a banana grower in Guatemala. The report published…
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Human emissions of greenhouse gases have caused rapid global warming. This has made high-impact, heat extreme events around the globe more and more intense over the past 70 years. Heat extremes, such as heatwaves, can cause severe damage…
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More than 170 countries, including India, have yet to submit their updated climate targets under the Paris Agreement, according to International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). Countries prepare national climate action…
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In an unprecedented move, India recently suspended the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan, citing cross-border terrorism. This was one of a series of escalations between the two countries which now find themselves on the brink of war.…
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Climate change intensified the catastrophic floods that swept through several U.S. states at the beginning of April, a new report has found. At least 15 people have died as a result of the flooding, which devastated states like Tennessee,…
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Global temperatures were stuck at near-record highs in April, the EU’s climate monitor said on Thursday, extending an unprecedented heat streak and raising questions about how quickly the world might be warming. The extraordinary heat…
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Colonial powers once sought to wipe out cloves grown by locals on the eastern Indonesian island of Ternate to safeguard their monopoly over the prized crop. Today farmers say the gravest threat to their plants is climate change. "Today...…
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