Tag Archives: Climate change

Dr. Seema Javed Heat and humidity levels hit extreme levels this week as Tokyo Olympics start today. The Japan’s environment agency has issued a Heat Stroke Alerts. Data suggests that the Wet Bulb Globe Temperature – a measure combining heat and humidity, used by organisers to assess safety – hit …

Seema Javed Lightning strikes killed at least 74 people across Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh on July 11, 2021. Of these, 41 were reported from Uttar Pradesh, with Allahabad topping the chart with a death toll of 16. In Jaipur, 11 tourists lost their lives when lightning struck them …

Seema Javed In 2021, the international community will need to show courage and ambition in order to overcome the great challenges of today: from recovering from the pandemic to addressing climate change, from supporting innovation to overcoming poverty and inequality. On July 9 and 10 Third G20 Finance Ministers and …

 Dr. Seema Javed Last week’s record-breaking heatwave in parts of the US and Canada would have been virtually impossible without the influence of human-caused climate change, according to a rapid attribution analysis by an international team of leading climate scientists. Climate change, caused by greenhouse gas emissions, made the heatwave …

Dr. Seema Javed Indian Monsoon is a complex phenomenon and reportedly climate change and global warming has further accentuated the situation, with each year surpassing the earlier records. The precipitation across the country is driven by the Indian Monsoon as over 70% of the annual rainfall is realized during this …

Dr. Seema Javed Many animals and plants unique to the world’s most stunning natural places face extinction if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, according to a new scientific study published in the journal Biological Conservation. However, remaining within the climate goals of the Paris Agreement – which aims to …

Dr. Seema Javed  Politicians wanting to block climate action often argue it will cost too much. Sometimes they refer to the economic models that have been developed since the 1990s to determine the “cost vs benefit” of different levels of climate action versus different levels of warming. Thousands of economists …

Dr. Seema Javed “By not complying with its climate objective, France is at fault, and the State should be held responsible for that.” Amélie Fort-Besnard, rapporteur public for the Paris Administrative Court, declared today during the hearing of case whereby four French NGOs in late 2018  had launched a lawsuit againt …

Dr.Seema Javed The year 2020 will always be referred as the year of the great pandemic in future. But while the public health emergency dominated headlines, our era’s other big headache, climate change, also found prominence in the footnotes. While the world floated into the Paris Agreement era, developing & …

Seema Javed A green recovery is essential to close the climate action gap, and could put emissions in 2030 at 44 GtCO2e – within the range of emissions that give a 66 per cent chance of holding temperatures to below 2°C.  According to The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) annual emissions …