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The Big Picture – Climate Change & India

The 25th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will be held in Spain from 2nd December this year. CoP 25 holds a lot of significance as countries prepare to move from pre 2020 period under Kyoto protocol to post 2020 period under Paris Agreement. India is all set to stress upon the need for fulfilling pre 2020 commitments by developed countries and that pre 2020 implementation gaps should not present an additional burden to developing countries in the post 2020 period. So what are the guiding principles for India at this meet and what are various initiatives taken by India on this issue.

Guests – Hem Kumar Pande, Former Additional Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change,
Prof. C.K. Varshney, Former Dean, School of Environment Sciences, JNU,
Sandeep Sen, Senior Journalist & Author,

Anchor – Vishal Dahiya

Producer – Sagheer Ahmad

February 7, 2021 by Climate Change 0

California Fires: Why doesn’t Silicon Valley solve climate change? | The Weekly with Wendy Mesley

California’s 10 most-destructive and five deadliest wildfires all happened in the last decade. In recent days, there was another wave of extreme fires. So far, Silicon Valley has been spared, but can its tech titans stop future destruction? Wendy Mesley speaks to climate change journalist and author David Wallace Wells, who says that this billionaire class should be doing more.

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February 3, 2021 by Climate Change 0

Climate Change and Land: Is the IPCC being straight with us?

On the 8th August 2019 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a comprehensive report on Climate Change and Land Use. Their findings immediately sparked controversy and debate. This week we take a brief look at the report and also at some of the reaction.

Research sites –

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/srccl/

https://www.foeeurope.org/false-solutions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_agriculture

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/08/ipcc-land-climate-report-carbon-cost-meat-dairy

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December 20, 2020 by Climate Change 0

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