Climate Change

Second Green Revolution

April has been a great month for climate change awareness in India. On 21 April, HSBC and the Indian government

Publication Date: 
05/05/2008
Pierre Mario Fitter
Business World (Kolkata)
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, Certified Emission Reduction, Climate Adaptation, Ministry of Science and Technology, India
Climate Change

Need for a pro-environment legal framework

For a change, and climate change that is, lawyers today talked on the issues other than legal ones. They spoke on how the climate change issue was not just about more development, but doing it differently with stricter green rules in place and the need for a stringent pro-environment legal framework for the country.

Publication Date: 
03/05/2008
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Environment Politics, Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, Climate Adaptation, India
Poverty

Climate adaptation, local institutions, and rural livelihoods

The success of historically developed adaptation practices among the rural poor depends crucially on the nature of prevailing formal and informal rural institutions.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2008
Arun Agrawal, Nicolas Perrin
International Forestry Resources and Institutions
Tags:
UNFCCC, Climate Change, Climate Adaptation, Rural Development, Global, Poverty
Climate Change

Retrospection and introspection of effect of climate change and their adaptation strategies in Indian agriculture

The inter and intra-year fluctuations in agriculture production will continue as long as agriculture depends on weather. The effect of weather on agriculture is related to location specific which directly link with the variability in local climates rather than in global climate patterns. Many scientists hold the position that agricultural shifts are likely due to climate change.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2008
K. K. Datta, Uttam Bhattacharya
Agricultural Situation in India
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Tags:
Land Degradation, Agriculture, Climate Change, Global Warming, Climate Impacts, Sea Level Rise, Natural Disasters, Climate Adaptation, Disaster Management, India, Food Security, Rainfall
Climate Change

Browsing on fences: pastoral land rights, livelihoods and adaptation to climate change

This paper presents a brief overview of pastoral systems, analyses the rationale behind mobility as a strategy to cope with scarce and variable resource endowment, and finally addresses the rights concerning the access to and the control of resources in the context of climate change.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2008
Michael Taylor, Michele Nori, Alessandra Sensi
IIED
Tags:
Land Ownership, Land Tenure, Land Use, Canada, Climate Change, Climate Adaptation, Pastoral Nomads, Africa, Asia, Europe, India
Climate Change

Key elements of a global deal on climate change

The purpose of this report is not to prescribe specific instruments or technologies. Different technologies and different policy instruments can be applied to different sectors and countries. Indeed, the more differentiated the global strategy, the greater the scope for learning, so it is important not to be unduly prescriptive on the details of policy action.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2008
Nicholas Stern
The London School of Economics and Political Science
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, Emissions Trading, Climate Adaptation, India, Global, Developing Countries
Climate Change

The genetic improvement of forage grasses and legumes to enhance adaptation of grasslands to climate change

The anticipated impacts of climate change on grassland systems and appropriate management responses have been reviewed extensively, though the emphasis has been on European temperate and North American rangeland systems.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2008
Michael T. Abberton, James H. MacDuff, Athole H. Marshall & et al
FAO
Tags:
Legumes, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Climate Adaptation, Grasses, Europe, Crops
Climate Change

Best performing firms also happen to be environmentally secure'

When HSBC India joined hands with the ministry of science & technology and the ministry of earth sciences last week to set up the Earth Sciences Forum to address climate change challenges, it was not a one-off initiative by the bank. HSBC's other climate change initiatives include HSBC Climate Partnership, HSBC Climate Confidence Index, HSBC Global Environment Efficiency Programme, HSBC Global Climate Change Benchmark Index and HSBC Climate Change Fund.

Publication Date: 
28/04/2008
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, Climate Adaptation, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology, India
Climate Change

Technology transfer is vital to reduce carbon emissions'

It's Earth Day on April 22 and we are no better off. Global warming is a larger threat than terrorism because it will affect each one of us. In India, the Ganges would dry up by 2030, according to UNFCCC.

Publication Date: 
21/04/2008
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
UNFCCC, Water Resources, Drinking Water, Carbon Tax, Climate Change, Green House Gases, Climate Impacts, Emissions Trading, Climate Adaptation
Climate Change

Climate change plan to be adaptative

Deputy chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia has said the national action plan on climate change would focus more on adaptation to climate change than on mitigation. Speaking at the release of

Publication Date: 
04/04/2008
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, Green House Gases, Climate Mitigation, Climate Adaptation

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