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India ready with indigenous model to predict rainfall

By : Sustainability ..., Sep 23, 2015

pIndia is finally ready with an indigenous model to predict long range and seasonal rainfall In the next six months the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology IITM Pune will be able to operationalise a dynamic numerical climate model it has developed to forecast...

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PhilRice studying heat-tolerant rice variety as it pushes climate change-ready technologies

By : Sustainability ..., Jun 3, 2015

Researchers identified promising breeding lines that exhibit tolerance to drought and heat stress that will pave way to the development of new varieties that addresses climate change in the country’s major rice-growing areas.

Thelma Padolina, lead researcher of the...

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India to seek more funds from rich nations at climate talks

By : Sustainability ..., Jun 1, 2015

With 2015 heading towards being the hottest year on record, India and China will negotiate for a treaty to put a check on the rising temperature.

The two countries will formally move a proposal at the Bonn climate talks starting from Monday, proposing that rich nations...

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Global climate set for change over decades

By : Sustainability ..., Jun 1, 2015

The global climate is on the verge of broad-scale change that could last for a number of decades, shows a study by British scientists. 

The change is linked to cooling of the Atlantic, and is likely to bring drier summers in Britain and Ireland. 

The study is...

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Subject Tags: climate change

Finally A Declared Road To North American Energy & Climate Action

By : Sustainability ..., May 28, 2015

The US, Canada, and Mexico have just mirrored the European Union in seeking a continent-wide approach to North American energy and related climate change. According to Canadian Natural Resources Minister Greg Rickford, “The partnership does not include binding targets, but...

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World has no choice but to decarbonise: UN climate chief

By : Sustainability ..., May 27, 2015

BARCELONA: Responding to climate change in the next 15 years is the world's "mega development project", given the need to invest trillions of dollars in infrastructure, creating jobs and economic stability, the United Nations' top climate change official said on Tuesday....

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Indian premier pairs green tourism and climate change

By : Sustainability ..., May 27, 2015

Shri Narendra Modi, Indian Premier recently called for focused development of presentation material on how India has contributed to environment protection through the ages.

Modi hasasked the Ministry of Culture to take in lead in this initiative, which, could be...

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Subject Tags: climate change , policy

Investors worth $12trn call for long term carbon target

By : Sustainability ..., May 27, 2015

Chief executives of 120 funds are calling for a long term emissions reduction goal as part of a global climate pact to be struck in Paris this December.

The institutional investors, representing more than US$12 trillion of assets, wrote to G7 finance ministers ahead of...

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Subject Tags: climate change , Financing

Green bonds: ANZ joins the global rush

By : Sustainability ..., May 26, 2015

ANZ announced on Friday it would in the next two weeks issue its first green bond, joining NAB, Westpac and Stockland with a product that continues to storm global investment markets.

Chief executive of the Climate Bond Initiative Sean Kidney told The Fifth Estate in...

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Subject Tags: climate change , Financing

Heat waves in India are more deadly than you think ‒ and they are likely to get deadlier

By : Sustainability ..., May 26, 2015

News reports have put the number of deaths last week in the heat wave sweeping parts of India at more than 500.

The number sounds alarming but is most likely an underestimate. Research shows that India is underreporting heat mortality, which in turn is inhibiting...

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Subject Tags: climate change