Climate Impacts

Convenient solutions to an inconvenient truth: ecosystem-based approaches to climate change

This latest World Bank document stresses on the inclusion of ecosystem-based approaches to national and regional adaptation strategies. It points out that access to funds will help communities to address climate change at all levels.

Publication Date:

01/06/2009

Source: The World Bank

Tags:

Ecosystems, Grasslands, Wetlands, Mangroves, Tank Irrigation, Forest Management, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Climate Mitigation, Carbon Capture and Storage, Carbon Offset, National Parks, Biodiversity Conservation, India, Andhra Pradesh, Global

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Monsoon wager: climate change and the Indian monsoon

This latest Greenpeace report says that climate change could bring about significant change to the intensity, geographic distribution and inter seasonal breaks in the Indian monsoon, which would have enormous social consequences.

Publication Date:

01/06/2009

Author(s): Paul Johnston, Vinuta Gopal

Source: Greenpeace India

Tags:

Carbon Dioxide, Monsoons, Climate Change, Green House Gases, Climate Impacts, Sea Level Rise, Cyclones, Storms, India

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Understanding and responding to climate change in developing Asia

Climate change is a major threat to improving prosperity in Asia and the Pacific. The Asian Development Bank has an important role to play in responding to the threats-and opportunities-presented by climate change in the region.

Publication Date:

01/06/2009

Source: Asian Development Bank

Tags:

Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Green House Gases, Development, Climate Impacts, Technology Transfer, Climate Mitigation, Energy Efficiency, Climate Adaptation, Asia, India, South Asia

Climate Change

Effects of global warming on ancient mammalian communities and their environments

Current global warming affects the composition and dynamics of mammalian communities and can increase extinction risk; however, long-term effects of warming on mammals are less understood. Dietary reconstructions inferred from stable isotopes of fossil herbivorous mammalian tooth enamel document environmental and climatic changes in ancient ecosystems, including C3/C4 transitions and relative seasonality.

Publication Date:

01/06/2009

Author(s): Larisa R. G. DeSantis, Robert S. Feranec, Bruce J. MacFadden

Source: PLoS ONE

Vol:

4

Issue:

6

pp:

1-7

Tags:

Climate Change, Mammals, Global Warming, Climate Science, Fauna, United States Of America (US), Climate Impacts

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Croppers to livestock keepers: livelihood transitions to 2050 in Africa due to climate change

The impacts of climate change are expected to be generally detrimental for agriculture in many parts of Africa. Overall, warming and drying may reduce crop yields by 10

Original Source

Publication Date:

01/06/2009

Author(s): Peter G. Jones, Philip K. Thornton

Source: Environmental Science & Policy

Vol:

12

Issue:

4

pp:

427

Tags:

Agriculture, Livestock, Climate Change, Global Warming, Climate Impacts, Africa, Statistics

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Climate change set to wreak havoc in coastal Orissa

Sanjeev Kumar Patro

BHUBANESWAR: The latest World Bank report

Publication Date:

31/05/2009

Source: New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)

Tags:

Agriculture, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Floods, Orissa (Odisha), Weather Modifications

Climate Change

Go on, guess

The human impact of climate change

Publication Date:

30/05/2009

Source: Economist (London)

Tags:

Niger, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Africa, Burundi, Chad, Eritrea, Somalia, Afghanistan, Russia, United States Of America (US), South Asia

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Warming killing 3 lakh people every year

Death Due To Hunger, Sickness And Weather Disasters To Rise To Half A Million By 2030: Report

London: Climate change kills about 315,000 people a year through hunger, sickness and weather disasters, and the annual death toll is expected to rise to half a million by 2030, a report said on Friday.

Publication Date:

30/05/2009

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

Starvation, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Natural Disasters, Economy, People, Poverty, Global

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Climate change biggest threat to health

SARAH BOSELEY

Senior doctors in the U.K. recently published a report warning that climate change is the biggest threat to global health of the 21st century. Rising global temperatures would have a catastrophic effect on human health, the doctors said, and patterns of infection would change, with insect-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue fever spreading more easily.
Heat waves

Publication Date:

28/05/2009

Source: Hindu (New Delhi)

Tags:

Starvation, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Food Stress, Health, Vector Borne Diseases, Environmental Health

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Climate change may hit sugarcane crop: WB report

MUMBAI: Climate change may hit the sugar industry in the state with sugarcane crop yields being reduced by up to 30% in the future with long-term socio-economic implications for many farmers.

This was revealed after a four-year study conducted by the World Bank in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa that predicted drops in agricultural yields.

Publication Date:

27/05/2009

Source: Times Of India (Mumbai)

Tags:

Agriculture, Food Crops, Sugarcane, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Crop Yield, World Bank, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa (Odisha)