Climate Change is going to have an adverse impact on India’s forest cover as well as the wheat production in the future, a government report to the United Nations has said. In its second National Communication on Climate Change to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, India has painted a grim picture of the impact of climate change. Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan published the report Wednesday.

RAPIDLY rising greenhouse-gas concentrations are driving ocean systems toward conditions not seen for millions of years, with an associated risk of fundamental and irreversible ecological transformation. Oceans absorb more than 90 percent of the global warming (see Figure 1) and are, thus, particularly affected.

Three big cities — Mumbai, Kolkata and Bangalore — have been rated below average compared to other mega cities in Asia-Pacific in terms of keeping pollution levels in check, said a report of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Delhi is the only Indian city featured in the average category.

Even as it recognizes that developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region like India must to grow to eke millions of its people out of poverty, a United Nations’ report has made it clear that given the realities of climate change “growing first and cleaning up later” is no longer an option for these developing countries.

 

UNDP to developing countries: Take on a greater role in reducing emissions 

The rising mercury is set to make you break into a not-so-cold sweat in more ways than one. If a government study is to be believed, the temperature in India is

expected to increase by 1.5 degrees Celsius to 2 degrees Celsius by 2030 – causing the production of fruits and vegetables to plummet.

Rising temperatures are going to hit India hard and by the end of the century the mean temperature rise is expected to be between 3.5 and 4.3 degrees Celsius. This is bound to have a deleterious effect on wheat production and will also see a major increase in cases of malaria.

The rising mercury is set to make you break into a not-so-cold sweat in more ways than one. If a government study is to be believed, the temperature in India is expected to increase by 1.5 degrees Celsius to 2 degrees Celsius by 2030 – causing the production of fruits and vegetables to plummet.

 

The EU has shifted its goalpost for climate change again, unilaterally seeking talks on a new global protocol from this year that puts India and other developing nations at par with developed world. 

 

EU shifts climate change targets again 

Climate change will be an additional stress on Indian forests, especially in upper Himalayan stretches, which are already subjected to multiple challenges including over-extraction, livestock grazing and human impact, a government report said here on Wednesday. 

The annual mean temperature in India is expected to rise by 3.5-4.3 degrees Celsius by 2098, badly impacting production of wheat – a major grain crop – and increasing malaria outbreak, according to India’s submission to the United Nations (UN) released here Wednesday.