Terming climate change a “global challenge,” Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar has emphasized the urgent need to protect India’s forests and agriculture, describing them as the “lungs and lifeline” of the country.
Rabindranath Tagore owes his conscience, consciousness and disillusionment to none but mother earth in the poem ‘Prithibi’, written on 16 October 1935. Around 1910, Tagore is writing the Santiniketan series of essays, and there, too, he underlines how he sees no distinction between his own self and the larger nonhuman around.
On the occasion, Patanjali University also launched an International Centre of Excellence on Disaster Medicine, Management and Climate Change, along with the establishment of a Patent Cell within the university.
Chinese researchers have revealed that the Tibetan Plateau is expected to experience accelerated warming in the next 10 years, according to the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai attended the event as chief guest, while Kedar Kashyap, Minister of Forests and Climate Change, Water Resources, Skill Development, Cooperative, and Parliamentary Affairs, was the guest of honour on the occasion.
The event, held from 19-21 March, was jointly organised by the departments of geography and zoology.
India has taken the lead in providing finance to renewable energy projects by including them in “priority sector lending” to accelerate the country’s transition to a low carbon economy in the fight against climate change.
Once renowned for its high-quality Mandarin oranges, Darjeeling has seen a decline in orange cultivation over the past few years due to climate change and pest attacks. Frustrated by mounting losses, many local farmers abandoned orange farming.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah reiterated on Thursday that Jammu and Kashmir is facing a severe threat from climate change, particularly in the form of a water crisis, stressing the need for greater awareness and action.
The climate of Assam is poised for significant changes by 2040, a shift that could severely impact the state’s economy, ecosystems and public health.
