Hard choices at Copenhagen

During the Climate Change Conference in 2009, the Obama-BASIC meeting was a watershed, saving Copenhagen from a complete collapse and also marking the emergence of the BASIC quartet as a major force in international climate policy diplomacy Hillary Clinton’s recent memoirs reveal how during the fortnight-long Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, on December 18, 2009, United States President Barack Obama and she barged into a room in which...

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A year later, no lessons learnt

Little seems to have been done by the State governments, past and present, in the area of disaster prevention, mitigation and management. Picture shows Indo-Tibetan Border Police personnel rescuing a woman pilgrim during the floods. Source: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/a-year-later-no-lessons-learnt/article6120397.ece Uttarakhand is still in dire need of a development plan that is also sensitive to the fragile ecosystem...

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Right Now We ‘Grossly Underestimate’ Economic Damage From Climate Change, New Paper Says

Source: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/16/3449645/stern-updated-climate-model-economic/ Our current models “grossly underestimate” the economic damage that will be wrought by climate change, according to British climate change economist Lord Nicholas Stern. So he and a colleague just published a new preliminary paper that makes a few key updates. Right now lots of mainstream climate research, including the...

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Indian Heat Wave Claims Hundreds Of Lives

Source: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/16/3449526/indian-heat-wave-death-toll/ The recent record-breaking heat wave that scorched much of India last week has claimed at least 169 lives in the state of Andhra Pradesh in the southeast of the country. In the state of Odisha to the north, officials announced Monday that the start of the school year would be delayed by at least 5 days in hopes that the current...

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