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Heat waves' frequency and intensity are increasing in India because of climate change. [7] Temperatures in India have risen by 0.7 °C (1.3 °F) between 1901 and 2018. [8] According to some current projections, the number and severity of droughts in India will have markedly increased by the end of the present century. [9]
Green Credit Programme is a programme announced by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change of the Government of India in October 2023 as part of the Lifestyle for Environment (LiFE) initiative proposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP27) held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt in 2022.
Rajdeep Sardesai (born 24 May 1965) is an Indian news anchor, reporter, journalist and author. He is a consulting editor and anchor of India Today Television . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He was the Editor-in-Chief of Global Broadcast News , that included CNN-IBN , IBN7 and IBN-Lokmat , before resigning in July 2014.
In the 2017 edition of Germanwatch's Climate Risk Index, Bangladesh and Pakistan ranked sixth and seventh respectively as the countries most affected by climate change in the period from 1996 to 2015, while India ranked fourth among the list of countries most affected by climate change in 2015. [42] India is estimated to have the world's ...
National Action Plan for Climate Change (NAPCC) is a Government of India's programme launched in 2008 to mitigate and adapt to the adverse impact of climate change. The action plan is designed and published under the guidance of Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change (PMCCC).
Climate change could have played an important role in causing large-scale floods across Maharashtra. [5] The observed data shows a three-fold rise in widespread extreme rainfall events across India, including those regions where the floods occurred.
On 4 February 2010 India's environment minister Jairam Ramesh announced that it would bring together 250 scientists from 125 Indian research institutions and collaborate with international organisations.its first assessment of greenhouse gas emission was released on May 11, 2010 and Its second climate assessment to be published in November 2010 ...
The People's Archive of Rural India (PARI / ˈ p ɑːr i /) is a multimedia digital journalism platform in India.It was founded in December 2014 by veteran journalist Palagummi Sainath, former rural affairs editor of The Hindu, author of the book Everybody Loves a Good Drought and winner of over 50 national and international awards [citation needed].