Climate Change

Vulnerability through the eyes of vulnerable: climate change induced uncertainties and Nepals development predicaments

This report provides a scenario of climate change, adaptation options and vulnerability in Nepal. In its fourth assessment report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) depicts the Hindukush-Himalaya, including Nepal, as a

Publication Date: 
01/10/2009
Institute for Social and Environmental Transition-Nepal
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Environment, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Natural Disasters, Climate Adaptation, Disaster Preparedness, Nepal, Himalaya
Climate Change

Hard science

While relatively little is known definitively about the glaciers of the Himalaya and Hindukush, what facts do exist need to be acknowledged as such.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2009
Himal South Asian
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Himalaya, Agriculture, Glaciers, Rivers, Climate Change, Climate Science, Global Warming, Climate Impacts, Glacial Melt, Hydrology, China, Nepal, South Asia, Weather Modifications, Rainfall Pattern
Climate Change

Glaciers take the heat

The receding glaciers of the Himalaya offer a critical case study of the region

Publication Date: 
01/10/2009
Smriti Mallapaty
Himal South Asian
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Ecotourism, Mountains, Himalaya, Glaciers, Climate Change, Atmospheric Brown Clouds, Climate Impacts, Glacial Melt, Hydrology, Nepal, India, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), South Asia
Climate Change

Beyond sun and dung

Rajendra Pachauri heads TERI, The Energy and Resources Institute, based in New Delhi. An engineer of the railways in his early career, Pachauri went to the United States to earn a PhD in industrial engineering and another in economics, after which he returned to India in 1981 to work with TERI.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2009
Vijay Prashad
Himal South Asian
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Himalaya, Climate Change, IPCC, Glacial Melt, Kyoto Protocol, Emission Targets, Technology Transfer, Renewable Energy, Consumption Patterns, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), TERI, China, United States Of America (US), India
Climate Change

The need for a Southasian perspective

Climate change has become the defining issue of our time. It is a quintessential global matter, since its effects respect no national or regional boundaries. Climate change is also a challenge that compels a global and collaborative response. We are all literally in the same boat, cast adrift in increasingly tumultuous seas. Unless we pull the oars together we may not make it to shore.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2009
Shyam Saran
Himal South Asian
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Himalaya, Agriculture, Monsoons, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Sea Level Rise, Glacial Melt, Climate Mitigation, Biodiversity, International Cooperation, India, South Asia, Food Security
Climate Change

Charting change

From the Himalaya to Male, there are clear signs that climate change is real.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2009
Kunda Dixit
Himal South Asian
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Himalaya, Rivers, Ganga, Climate Change, Global Warming, Climate Impacts, Sea Level Rise, Glacial Melt, Floods, Climate Adaptation, Bangladesh, Maldives, Nepal, South Asia
Water Resources

Integration of policies in framing water management problem in the Indian Himalayas

While there is growing realization that IWRM policy packages are exploited by various actors, there is inadequate understanding of the integration of these in shaping and reshaping water management. This paper contributes to this understanding by analyzing this policy process using Bayesian network tool

Publication Date: 
01/10/2009
Saravanan V. Subramanian
Centre for Development Research
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Himalaya, Agriculture, Water Resources, Water Management, Water Demand, Watershed Development, India, Himachal Pradesh
Climate Change

Ahmedabad ISRO centre to map Himalayan region

Sujay Mehdudia

NEW DELHI: The Indian Space Research Organisation

Publication Date: 
30/09/2009
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Mountain Ecosystems, Himalaya, Glaciers, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
Climate Change

Ministry releases guidelines to sustain Himalayan ecology

Plans talks with neighbours, biodiversity mapping.

Recognising the importance of the Indian Himalayas as a unique repository of biodiversity, and as part of the official mission for sustaining the Himalayan ecosystem, the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has released guidelines on this.

Publication Date: 
30/09/2009
Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Mountain Ecosystems, Himalaya, Glaciers, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Biodiversity, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem (NMSHE)
Climate Change

Everest "Memento" For Obama To Show Climate Change Impact

Nepal's sherpa community is sending a piece of rock from Mount Everest to U.S. President Barack Obama to underscore the impact of global warming on the Himalayas.

Publication Date: 
21/09/2009
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
Himalaya, Climate Change, Green House Gases, Global Warming, WWF, Nepal, United States Of America (US)

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