Tag: #IPCC
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Combining IPCC targets with SDGs
The IPCC meet in China this week is urged to integrate Sustainable Development Goals with climate targets
IPCC vice-chair vows to give Himalayas attention they deserve
The first Nepali scientist to be elected to the bureau discusses representation and power dynamics at the world’s foremost climate science body
Nepal needs to get its climate act together
Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden address the 76th UN General Assembly on 21 September. Photos: XINHUAThe United Nations…
Decarbonisation needs to begin today
The present concentration of carbon dioxide in earth’s atmosphere is the highest in 2 million years. The average atmospheric temperature in the…
UN climate report declares planetary emergency
Paddy and maize fields in Kavre. A heavier than usual monsoon this year brought destructive floods, but was a boon to farmers. Photo: AMIT…
A hotter Himalaya
The muddy waters of the Indrawati bringing down the Melamchi flood at left merging with the Bhote Kosi at Dolalghat on Monday. Photo:…
The Third Pole is warming faster than expected
ARCTIC HIMALAYA: NASA satellite images of Imja Galcier near Mt Everest taken in 1962, 1975, 1983, 1989, 1992, 2000, 2006 and (above) in…
Act globally, think locally
Dozers were required for the rescue of stranded locals and their motorbikes in Kavre during the floods caused by incessant rainfall across the…
Weather warning for climate meeting
The melting Khumbu Glacier below Mount Everest. The Khumbu glacier has shrunk and receded dramatically in the last 30 years. Photo: ALEX…
From playing victim to proactive leadership on climate
Gebru Jember Endalew has been involved in UN negotiations on climate change since 2008 as a core member of the Ethiopian negotiating team. Last…
Turning on the heat
Photo: GEORGE MALLORY Unprecedented in recorded history, there was a 100 degree C difference in temperature between the northern and southern…
Climate damage
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRIClimate change is global, it does not respect national boundaries. Neither should its solution. The only way we can…