The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has now released its Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC. An earlier post on this blog provided a brief background of the context in which this report was written. In a nutshell The Special Report paints a grim picture. First, it highlights the consequences of failing to […]
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The Special Report of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which will be released tomorrow, is a document that has been anxiously awaited by the global community. Paris Agreement Goals The Paris Agreement signed in 2015 is the definitive global instrument concerning climate change. Article 2(1)(a) of the Paris Agreement, 2015 sets out one […]
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Big data and climate change
Google recently announced that it will release city-specific emission data in the public domain. The data will help identify the source of emissions and also enable governments to structure regulatory measures to deal with them. This is the first time that Google will be sharing aggregate transportation data (e.g. the driving, biking and transit ridership) […]
The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur recently published its findings on the correlation between the air pollution and the changing monsoon cycle in India in Nature Communications. The article can be accessed here. The process of cloud formation and precipitation is impacted by atmospheric aerosols. Higher aerosol concentration in the atmosphere, a direct result of increasing […]
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