Emerging Economies Climate Report 2022
The report reveals that over half of companies in emerging economies have been impacted by extreme weather events over the last 12 months.The report shows that 58% of companies in Africa and South Asia
Drought
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Water Risks Ripple Through the Beverage Industry
The Italian restaurant backed by celebrities Mario Batali and Joseph Bastianich is one of several shunning bottled water, along with the city of San Francisco and New York state. "The argument for local water is compelling and obvious," said Bastianich, who is phasing out bottled water across his restaurant empire, which stretches to Los Angeles.
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Conserving land and water: securing our common future - World Day to Combat Desertification 17 June 2009
The 2009 World Day to Combat Desertification focuses on the theme: Conserving land and water = Securing our common future.
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Bangladesh and China Top U.N. Disaster Risk Index
The Mortality Risk Index was issued by the U.N. International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) before a four-day meeting of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction opening on Tuesday at which 1,800 officials and experts will examine natural catastrophes.
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Only Rs 1.5bn for drought-affected areas in 2009-10
The government has allocated a mere Rs 1.5 billion for the Drought Recovery Assistance Programme (DRAP) and the Drought Emergency Relief Assistance (DERA) in the 2009-10 budget.
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UN Climate Talks Advance, Poor Urge More CO2 Cuts
Climate talks made progress on Friday toward a new U.N. treaty to curb global warming but ended far short of calls by developing nations for the rich to make deeper cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Four years of talks to widen the existing Kyoto Protocol have struggled to agree on how to share the cost of efforts to curb greenhouses gas mainly emitted by burning fossil fuels.
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Declare Bhopal district as drought-hit: Pachauri
Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee President Suresh Pachauri has demanded the state government to declare Bhopal district as drought hit. He was addressing a team of farmers who were sitting in 'Dharna' in connection with their 11-point programme in front of the district collector's office.
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A new (under) class of travellers
THE airstrip at Lokichoggio, in the scorched wastes of north Kenya, was once ground zero for food aid. During Sudan
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In need of a miracle
Ever since they started pumping water for their vines, the winegrowers of Langhorne Creek have learnt to cope with crises. But none as grave as the one they face now. Their water source at the mouth of the Murray River, in South Australia, has turned salty. Adelaide, the state capital 55km (34 miles) away, has been told its water supply from the Murray can no longer be guaranteed.
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Lanka well endowed with water resources
Per capita water availability in Sri Lanka indicates that the country is well endowed with water resources and there is no water scarcity. However there is substantial temporal and spatial scarcity of water supply.
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Climate change may hit Boro farming
With the global temperature gradually on the rise, Bangladesh being a tropical delta has also been experiencing comparatively higher humidity and temperature through the past couple of decades, threatening agriculture, climatologists have observed.