Topic: Climate Crisis

The NDMA is India’s apex body for disaster management and gets into action during floods, droughts, heatwaves, cyclones, and six other types of disaster events. With the frequency of such events increasing, Kishore said disaster management services are now needed on a larger scale. 

There are two main reasons India is bucking the trends in 'heatwave intensity' seen in other parts of the world: pollution and irrigation.

Crusoe, a startup, has built mobile data centers that are placed onto oilfield sites where flaring takes place. It is able to use the excess gas in a process it calls digital flare mitigation.

While heat waves are common this time of the year and peak in May, the ongoing heat wave was first declared uncharacteristically early on 11 March.

India is one of the South Asian nations to record the most number of urban adaptation initiatives, but these plans are marred by uneven distribution of funds and priority. 

US military is a more consequential climate actor than many of the industrialised countries gathered at the COP26 summit in Glasgow.

The pandemic didn’t exactly give the world a lot of time to design institutions to encourage technology transfer. We don’t have that excuse for the climate crisis.

Some countries singled out China, saying it is refusing to beef up commitments to limit temperature increases and digging in over coal, with Russia and India also dragging the chain.

‘Climate Delivery Plan’ released ahead of UN climate change conference (COP26) outlines agenda & timetable for developed countries to deliver monetary help to low-income nations.

The climate crisis is also a child-rights crisis, affecting children first and worst with deepening inequalities across borders and generations.