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India and climate change: UN framework and onward developments / Kumar, Rajesh   Article
Kumar, Rajesh Article
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Summary/Abstract In last few decades, there has been tremendous increase in culmination of several International Protocols and Agreements and exercises like the Copenhagen Summit, the Bali Summit, the Cancun Summit and followed by the Doha and Durban Summits in recent years, they all reflect the earnestness on part of the policy makers’ world over for clinching of a final deal on Climate Change related issues. Governments all over the world are under pressure to act in the larger interest of the humanity across the world because of ever increasing threats of Climate Change. Every time during the summits, expectations run very high that something concrete would emerge, but so far there have been only few outcomes and more promises so far been made by the countries for meeting again and committing themselves for sealing agreements one more time during forthcoming Paris 2015 meeting. Going by the past trends, serious apprehensions can be cast about any fruitful outcomes taking place any time in near future because of the serious differences countries and their governments have about achieving the targets and making cuts in emissions of Green House Gases (GHG) under different International Protocols on different pretexts at international as well as national level.
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Real and present danger / Mazo, Jeffrey   Journal Article
Mazo, Jeffrey Journal Article
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Publication 2014.
Summary/Abstract The latest US assessments drive home the fact that dangerous climate change is not just a future risk. It is already here. In parts of southern Florida, residents are seeing their streets flood at high tide as decades-old coastal defences fail to cope with sea-level rise. In Alaska, thawing permafrost is causing more than $10 million per year in damage to roads, runways and other infrastructure. The amount of precipitation in the northeast has increased by 8% since 1991 compared to the long-term average, but the amount falling in extremely heavy rainstorms or blizzards has risen by 71%. Nationally, river flooding has remained constant, but it has increased dramatically in the northeast and Midwest and fallen in the southeast and southwest. Nearly 20% of Arizona and New Mexico's forest land suffered heavy damage from wildfires and pest outbreaks due to warming and drought between 1984 and 2008. Insurance against climate-related disasters is becoming increasingly expensive in some places, and unavailable in others.
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