Author: Dr Lakshmi Kumar T V
On 12 December 2015, during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris, 195 countries adopted the Paris Agreement, a legally binding international treaty on mitigating global warming. The agreement aims to limit the rise in global temperatures to below 2°C above pre-industrial levels while striving to restrict it to 1.5°C. The agreement also sets the long-term objective of achieving net zero by 2050. To realise such an ambitious goal, the global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions rate must reach its peak before 2025 and then decline rapidly. By 2030, emission rates must be about half of the present rate and…
Deadly heat extremes kill 4,89,000 people annually, 45% of whom are from Asia (WHO). World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed that the period from 2015 to 2025 witnessed the eleven (11) hottest years from the climatological records. Prolonged heatwave conditions in the year 2025 were observed across the world such as in Italy, Switzerland, Serbia, the Nordic regions and China. WMO statistics reveal that the heatwave duration was around 70 days in the year 2022 over China, and India’s heatwaves occurrence due to climate change increased to 30 times in 2022, and in the year 2018, more than 228 million people…
Image Courtesy: Shutterstock Climate change is a global threat to our natural world including humans. The contribution of humans to climate change, which is known as human-induced climate change, is leaving the entire world in lurch. The effects of climate change are being experienced by the entire world due to humans’ inconsiderate nature, especially their greedy lifestyle. Frequent droughts, floods, heat and cold waves, increased forest fires, changing patterns of cyclones and their intensity are the resultant outcomes of human-induced climate change. The basic aspect to measure climate change is the long-term increment of temperature over a region. The globe…