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Khanna was born in Kanpur, India. [6] His childhood was spent between India and the United Arab Emirates before his family moved to New York City. [7] He obtained a Bachelor of Science in International Affairs from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, [8] and also a Master of Arts in Security Studies from Georgetown in 2005. [9]
In 2015, the FSB created the Task Force in order to develop recommendations of voluntary disclosures for listed companies. However, ahead of the COP26 summit (2021), the UK responded to the clear 'leadership vacuum on climate change governance' [7] to become the first G20 country to mandate 1,300 of the UK's largest private companies to disclose climate-related data in line with the TCFD ...
Climate risk insurance is a type of insurance designed to mitigate the financial and other risk associated with climate change, especially phenomena like extreme weather. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] [ 24 ] The insurance is often treated as a type of insurance needed for improving the climate resilience of poor and developing communities.
Climate risk management covers a broad range of potential actions, including: early-response systems, strategic diversification, dynamic resource-allocation rules, financial instruments (such as climate risk insurance), infrastructure design and capacity building.
The Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C (SR15) was published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on 8 October 2018. [1] The report, approved in Incheon, South Korea, includes over 6,000 scientific references, and was prepared by 91 authors from 40 countries. [1]
Operation Popeye / Sober Popeye (Project Controlled Weather Popeye / Motorpool / Intermediary-Compatriot) was a military cloud-seeding project carried out by the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War in 1967–1972.
RCP 2.6 is a "very stringent" pathway. [6] According to the IPCC, RCP 2.6 requires that carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions start declining by 2020 and go to zero by 2100.It also requires that methane emissions (CH 4) go to approximately half the CH 4 levels of 2020, and that sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions decline to approximately 10% of those of 1980–1990.
Over the years, China Hongqiao group has integrated sustainability, energy conservation and Green production into its overall strategy. [21]In 2019 Hongqiao announced its plan to move around 2 million tonnes of its annual capacity from Shandong in eastern China to Yunnan to allow easier access to a cleaner power source than coal for the energy-intensive aluminium smelting process.