Search

Reset

Searching with a thematic focus on Climate change in India

Showing 231-240 of 426 results

Pages

  • Document

    Food and Nutrition Security and Climate Change: Strategies for a Sustainable Future

    Watershed Organisation Trust, 2013
    The paper examines the existing supporting systems to food and nutritional security (FNS) – institutional and social – especially in the semi-arid and dryland regions in India. It explores the climatic and non-climatic factors which are intertwined and interdependent in the issue of FNS.
  • Document

    NMT Infrastructure in India: Investment, Policy and Design

    UNEP Risø Centre on Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development, 2013
    One of three reports which evaluate and summarise options for low carbon city planning, non-motorised transport (NMT) and infrastructure risks due to climate variability in India. The reports were published as part of the project on ‘Promoting Low Carbon Transport in India.
  • Document

    Mapping the regional variation in potential vulnerability in Indian agriculture to climate change: An exercise through constructing vulnerability index

    African Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2013
    The anticipated changes in water availability, temperature rise, soil degradation and the suggested increase in extreme weather events are likely to greatly affect agriculture in India. This paper aims to develop the vulnerability profile of agricultural systems of the Indian states to the changing climate scenarios.
  • Document

    Water and food security – Experiences in India and China

    Global Water Partnership, 2013
    This paper focuses on India and China as dominant and influential countries in Asia. It compares the way these countries, with different political approaches, are approaching the challenge of harnessing water resources to increase effectiveness, equity, and sustainability under conditions of growing water scarcity and competing demands.
  • Document

    Diagnostic assessment of select environmental challenges valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services in India

    World Bank, 2013
    This paper reports on a wide range of research that estimates the value of ecosystem services (ESS) in India, including those related to forests, grasslands, wetlands, mangroves, and coral reefs.
  • Document

    Developing country perspectives on ‘mitigation actions’, ‘NAMAs’, and ‘LCDS’

    Taylor and Francis Group, 2013
    The MAPS programme, which seeks to deepen mitigation ambition in developing countries, is engaged in exploring the concepts of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) and Low Carbon Development Strategies (LCDS) from a developing country perspective.
  • Document

    Prospects for shale gas development in Asia: examining potentials and challenges in China and India

    Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, 2012
    Between now and 2035, global energy consumption is forecast to grow by 50 percent, and China and India together will account for more than half of this global growth. The scale of their energy consumption affects global supply and demand and, inherently, the price levels of various energy commodities - including natural gas - in the global marketplace.
  • Document

    Climate change in the Himalayas: current state of knowledge

    World Bank, 2013
    This World Bank policy research working paper reviews the literature on the potential biophysical and economic impacts of climate change in the Himalayas. The review was limited mostly to peer reviewed journal articles, with some documents published by national and international agencies also included.
  • Organisation

    World Wildlife Fund, India (WWF-India)

    Established as a Charitable Trust on November 27, 1969, WWF India has experience of over four decades in the field.
  • Document

    Cutting cotton carbon emissions: findings from Warangal, India

    World Wildlife Fund, India, 2013
    WWF-India is working with farmers in Warangal district of India to promote better management practices (BMPs) in cotton so as to reduce the environmental impact associated with the overuse of inputs and resources. This paper examines a pilot project to estimate the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of cotton production systems, comparing traditionally grown cotton with BMP cotton.

Pages