China is poorly prepared to tackle the impact of climate change that presents a serious threat to the country, thanks to a lack of planning and public awareness, the government said on Monday.

An internationally agreed target to limit rises in global average temperatures to within 2 degrees Celsius is around double the threshold that would avoid catastrophic climate change, a study by 18

The Green Climate Fund, designed as the United Nations' most important funding body in the battle on climate change in developing nations, launched its headquarters on Wednesday in South Korea, but

The report -- one of two issued today on climate change -- calls for an early warning system to monitor climate conditions and improved models for predicting changes that impact the way people live

We assess climate impacts of global warming using ongoing observations and paleoclimate data. We use Earth’s measured energy imbalance, paleoclimate data, and simple representations of the global carbon cycle and temperature to define emission reductions needed to stabilize climate and avoid potentially disastrous impacts on today’s young people, future generations, and nature. A cumulative industrial-era limit of ~500 GtC fossil fuel emissions and 100 GtC storage in the biosphere and soil would keep climate close to the Holocene range to which humanity and other species are adapted.

State level climate change trends over India during last 60 years have been presented this publication. The publication contains quantification of climate change trends with latest data (1951-2010) in respect of temperatures (Maximum, Minimum and Average), Daily temperature range and rainfall for each state of the country.

Agriculture is the source of livelihood for nearly two-thirds of the population in India. A major part of the agriculture is rainfed (~80 out of 142 million ha net cultivated area) and will remain so for at least for a foreseeable future.

This FAO report outlines the extent to which sound management of forests and tree planting can reduce the incidence of landslides and how forestation can assist in land rehabilitation and stabilization after landslides have occurred.

This paper first looks at why, how, where and when does migration become an effective adaptation strategy. Then it gives a snapshot of the changing migration patterns in Bangladesh. It examines how policies evolve to addresses the issue of climate change and migration in the broader contexts of development and disaster risk reduction.

This document reports on 2012 major disasters in India, especially those for which the state governments have called on the Central Government for support, such as floods and heavy rain in Assam, Uttarkashi, Himachal Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh (Nilam cyclone).

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