India
Cities Emit 60% More Carbon Than Thought
The carbon footprint of some of the world’s biggest cities is 60 percent larger than previously estimated when all the products and services a city consumes are included, according to a new analysis.
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Climate change to cause humid heatwaves that will kill even healthy people
Extreme heatwaves that kill even healthy people within hours will strike parts of the Indian subcontinent unless global carbon emissions are cut sharply and soon, according to new research. Even outside
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Pakistan
Seven-year-old girl sues Pakistan government over climate change
In a landmark case, seven-year-old Rabab Ali has sued the government for violating her rights, and the rights of her generation, to a healthy life. "I want the government to give me and my friends a
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India
Quantifying historical carbon and climate debts among nations
Contributions to historical climate change have varied substantially among nations. These differences reflect underlying inequalities in wealth and development, and pose a fundamental challenge to the
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Pakistan
Pakistan to register strong message at upcoming un climate forum
Islamabad—Federal Minister for Climate Change, Senator Mushahidullah Khan has directed senior officials of the ministry to closely collaborate with the provincial governments and stakeholders to pursue
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Pakistan
Pakistan pushes to put stalled climate policy into action
Pakistan's provinces will create committees to oversee reductions in carbon emissions and support climate change adaptation, in a push to implement a long-stalled national climate policy. Under an agreement
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India
Achieving the global transition to energy efficient lighting toolkit
The Toolkit is a practical reference manual that identifies many of the essential elements that need to be considered before and after inefficient lighting phase-out schemes have been initiated, including
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India
Emissions from S Asian brick production & potential climate impact
Presentation by Ellen Baum of Climate and Health Research Network at the Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2015: Poor in climate change, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, March 11 – 12, 2015.
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India
Brick Kilns in India
Presentation by J. S. Kamyotra, Central Pollution Control Board at Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2015: Poor in climate change, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, March 11 – 12, 2015.
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Sri Lanka
Protecting mangroves can lower disaster risks, offer cash: experts
Better protecting the world's fast-disappearing mangroves could have big economic, social and environmental benefits, experts said at the U.N. climate talks in Lima this week. Besides protecting shorelines
