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Key Documents archive results 1-10 of 10 in Climate Change & Energy and Climate change in India
Guide on climate change and indigenous peoples
This guide, published by Tebtebba (Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research and Education), outlines the expected impacts of climate change on indigenous peoples around the world, and showcases traditional methods of climate change mitigation and adaption. Following a basic...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: September 2008 | EN
Sea level changes along the Indian coast: Observations and projections
The authors of this article analysed simulation results from a regional climate model for the northern Indian Ocean to predict likely changes in the strength and frequency of tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal from 2041-2060. They find that rising concentrations of greenhouse gases will lead...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: February 2006 | EN
Climate change risk: An adaptation and mitigation agenda for Indian cities
This paper, prepared for the Global Urban Summit, proposes a framework for building climate change adaptation and mitigation measures into India's urban renewal programmes. This involves multiple government stakeholders at national, state and city levels. The author begins with a description of...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: July 2007 | EN
Climate change mitigation in developing countries
The role of developing countries in climate change mitigation has been and continues to be a contentious issue. Developing countries' emissions are predicted to surpass those of industrialised countries within the first half of this century, but no formal commitments to reduce emissions have been...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: October 2002 | EN
Investigating the impacts of climate change in India
This collection of reports summarise the findings from a collaborative project between the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and India's Ministry of Environment and Forests that involved eight Indian research institutes. The reports look specifically at the predicted...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: September 2005 | EN
Climate Change and India
This collection of nine research articles, published by the Indian Academy of Sciences, presents the latest findings of a network of studies conducted by leading scientific institutes and researchers in India. They examine the likely national impact of climate change on issues such as water...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: February 2006 | EN
India's Future Security Challenge: Energy security
This is the last of a four-part Foreign Policy Centre article titled "India as a new global leader" and argues that energy security will be a major challenge for India's future. It provides many examples of ongoing initiatives to meet the country's growing energy demand. The first part of the...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2005 | EN
India's Initial National Communication to the UNFCCC
This official report to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), published by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, is a comprehensive document on climate change in India. The report assesses India's vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, and also provides a greenhouse...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2004 | EN
Climate change mitigation in developing countries
The role of developing countries in climate change mitigation has been and continues to be a contentious issue. Developing countries' emissions are predicted to surpass those of industrialised countries within the first half of this century, but no formal commitments to reduce emissions have been...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: October 2002 | EN
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
This is the full text of the Framework Convention, which was adopted at the United Nations Headquarters, New York on 9 May 1992. The convention was open for signature at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro from 4 to 14 June 1992, and thereafter at the UN Headquarters in New York, from 20 June 1992...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 1992 | EN
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