Climate Finance Subject – Environment Context – COP 26 in Glasgow Concept – Climate finance refers to local, national or transnational financing—drawn from public, private and alternative sources of financing—that seeks to support mitigation and adaptation actions that will address climate change. The Convention, the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement call for […]
Climate Finance Delivery Plan Subject – Environment Context – Expectations from CoP26: Climate finance needs to be scaled up with focus on adaptation, says LDC Group. Concept – Least developed countries (LDC)are the least responsible for climate change but bear most of its brunt. They represent over one billion people in Africa, the […]
Prime polluters Subject – Environment Context – COP-26 at Glasgow Concept – The world released 36.4 gigatonnes (Gt) of CO2 in 2019 — the last year for which global data for the GHG is available — in fossil fuel emissions and from the cement sector. Of this, China alone emitted 28 per cent […]
Art Industry Reducing Its Carbon Footprint Subject – Environment Context – While several exhibitions in the past have been dedicated to nature and the need to arrest environmental degradation, art establishments now are also looking inward, analysing if the crisis begins at home. Concept – “Waste Age: What Can Design Do” exhibition – […]
The Joro Spider Subject – Environment Context – Asian spider seen in Georgia Concept – The Joro spider, (Trichonephilaclavata) is common in Japan, China, Korea and Taiwan, Joro females have colourful yellow, blue and red markings on their bodies. It’s not clear exactly how and when the first Joro spider arrived in the U.S. or why […]
Fisher Friend Mobile Application Subject – Environment Context –App to give no-fishing zone alerts Concept – With the mass nesting season of the endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles approaching, the Odisha Government, in collaboration with the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), has come up with a customised mobile application to alert fishermen to no-fishing zones in the Bay […]
Cities and climate change Subject – Environment Context – low-rise buildings are the future – not skyscrapers Concept – More than half of the world’s 7.8 billion people live in cities and urban areas. By 2050, an additional 2.5 billion will be living there. More densely packed optimize the use of space and […]
Seaweeds Subject – Environment Context – Goa’s pilot seaweed farm explores viability of these climate-smart algae Concept – “Seaweed” is the common name for countless species of marine plants and algae that grow in the ocean as well as in rivers, lakes, and other water bodies. Some seaweeds are microscopic, such as the […]