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 & …
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India has been the best performer on climate among the world’s big economies
Dr.Seema Javed If the world was not shaken by a global pandemic, today on 12 December2020, which marks the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Paris Agreement, we would be analysing the operationalisation of the largest such inter-governmental accord.Instead, we are looking at the economic tumult brought on by …
Read More »warmest September 2020 on record for the world
Dr. Seema Javed This year in September theEarth’s surface was warmest than during any other year, making it the hottest September on earth.The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) analysis data show that the month was 0.63ºC above the average September temperatures of the standard thirty-year climatological reference period (1981-2010). This makes September …
Read More »International response to climate change has been inadequate
By Dr. Seema Javed Globally climate legislation has offset only a third of CO2 emissions growth since 1999 At a time when global warming and climate change are a part of our day today existence and no more a distant reality, when achieving Paris Agreement targets, is necessary for our …
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