Climate Change

Mumbai at 'extreme risk' from climate change, says study

India is among the 'extreme risk' countries where economic impacts of climate change will be most felt by 2025, according to a report.

Publication Date: 
01/11/2013
India Today (New Delhi)
Tags:
India, Mumbai, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Economy, Bangladesh, South Asia, Sierra Leone, Extreme Weather Events, Health, Europe
Climate Change

Mumbai faces biggest threats from climate change of all cities in world

India is among the ‘extreme risk’ countries where economic impacts of climate change will be most felt by 2025, according to a report.

Publication Date: 
31/10/2013
Daily News Analysis (Mumbai)
Tags:
India, Climate Change, Mumbai, Climate Impacts, Economy, Bangladesh, South Asia, Dhaka, Extreme Weather Events, Sea Level Rise, Global Warming, China, Air Pollution, Asia, Europe
Climate Change

Climate Change and Environmental Risk Atlas 2014

India is among the "extreme risk" countries of the world where economic impacts of climate change will be most keenly felt by 2025, according to Climate Change and Environmental Risk Atlas 2014 published by Maplecroft.
Original Source: http://maplecroft.com/portfolio/new-analysis/2013/10/30/31-global-econom...

Publication Date: 
30/10/2013
Maplecroft
Tags:
Environment, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Natural Disasters, India, Bangladesh, Africa, South Asia, Thailand, Nigeria, Extreme Weather Events, Global Warming, Sea Level Rise, Health, Agriculture, Cyclones, Floods, GDP, Economy, Dhaka, Mumbai, Kolkata
Climate Change

Climate science in the real world

What we desperately close our mind to is once again becoming pronounced ever more clearly: climate change is here; it is already bringing devastating extreme weather events; and it will become wors

Publication Date: 
28/10/2013
Sunita Narain
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, IPCC, Carbon Dioxide, Green House Gases, Typhoons, Extreme Weather Events, India, Sunita Narain, CSE, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Floods, Drought
Climate Change

Precipitation extremes in major urban areas: Implications for stormwater Infrastructure

A presentation by Vimal Mishra, Haider Ali, D S Pai at the 4th National Research Conference on Climate Change, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, October 26-27, 2013.

Vimal Mishra, Haider Ali, D S Pai
Tags:
Climate Change, Rainfall Pattern, CSE, Urban Waterlogging, Climate Impacts, Urbanisation, Floods, Extreme Weather Events
Climate Change

The damages from climatic extremes: Does disaster specific and generic adaptation measures matter?

The damages from climatic extremes: Does disaster specific and generic adaptation measures matter? - A presentation by Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati & Unmesh Patnaik at the 4th National Research Conference on Climate Change, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, October 26-27, 2013.

Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati, Unmesh Patnaik
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Adaptation, Extreme Weather Events, India, Poverty, Developing Countries, Orissa (Odisha), Cyclones, Floods, Disaster Management
Climate Change

Extreme events, uninsured losses & informal sector vulnerability: a case study of Mumbai

Extreme events, uninsured losses & informal sector vulnerability: a case study of Mumbai - A presentation by Archana Patankar at the 4th National Research Conference on Climate Change, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, October 26-27, 2013.

Archana Patankar
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Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events, Mumbai, Informal Sector, Climate Adaptation, Rainfall Pattern, Floods, Power Transmission, Land Reclamation
Climate Change

Climate Council finds 'clear link' between bushfires and climate change

Independent body Coalition axed challenges Tony Abbott's view that connecting global warming and blazes is 'hogwash'

Publication Date: 
25/10/2013
Guardian (UK)
Tags:
Climate Change, Forest Fires, Climate Impacts, Australia, Global Warming, Extreme Weather Events
Climate Change

Attributing mortality from extreme temperatures to climate change in Stockholm, Sweden

A changing climate is increasing the frequency, intensity, duration and spatial extent of heat waves. These changes are associated with increased human mortality during heat extremes. At the other end of the temperature scale, it has been widely speculated that cold-related mortality could decrease in a warmer world. We aim to answer a key question; the extent to which mortality due to temperature extremes in Stockholm, Sweden during 1980–2009 can be attributed to climate change that has occurred since our reference period (1900–1929).

Publication Date: 
20/10/2013
Daniel Oudin Åstrom, Bertil Forsberg, Kristie L. Ebi & et al
Nature Climate Change
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Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events, Climate Impacts, Sweden, Climate Adaptation, Global Warming, Heat Waves
Natural Disasters

Natural disasters: saving lives today, building resilience for tomorrow

The rapid growth in the number of people living in cities and urban landscapes is increasing the world’s susceptibility to natural disasters, according to this new report by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. It warns that the unprecedented influx of people to urban areas across the developing world is leading to a large increase in people living in locations susceptible to natural disasters, and the situation is exacerbated by the explosive expansion of informal settlements or ‘slums’.

Publication Date: 
18/10/2013
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Tags:
Natural Disasters, Extreme Weather Events, Urbanisation, Climate Change, India, Global, Disaster Management, Disaster Preparedness

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