It includes:-
1. climate change
2. IPCC
3. India's role in IPCC
4. IPCC's report
5. India's initiatives for saving the environment.
6.activity
7. solutions
4. Climate change
Climate change refers to the change in the environmental conditions of
the earth. This happens due to many internal and external factors. The
climatic change has become a global concern over the last few decades.
Due to these changes, a number of species of plants and animals have
gone extinct.
When Did it Start?
The climate started changing a long time ago due to human activities
but we came to know about it in the last century. During the last
century, we started noticing the climatic change and its effect on human
life.
5. REASONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
NATURAL REASONS
volcanic eruption
solar radiation
tectonic plate movement
orbital variations.
MANMADE REASONS
burning fossil fuels,
deforestation
developing land for farms, cities,
and roads
rising carbon dioxide
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8. • The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations.
• It was established in 1988 by world meteorological
organization and united nation environment
programme.
• The IPCC was created to provide policymakers with
regular scientific assessments on climate change, its
implications and potential future risks, as well as to put
forward adaptation and mitigation options.
• Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, it is comprised
of 195 member states
9. WORKING GROUPAND TASK FORCE
Working Group I (The Physical Science Basis),
Working Group II (Impacts, Adaptation and
Vulnerability), and
Working Group III (Mitigation of Climate Change).
The IPCC also has a Task Force on National
Greenhouse Gas Inventories.
10. Why their report matters?
Through the IPCC, thousands of experts from around the world synthesize the most recent
developments in climate science, adaptation, vulnerability, and mitigation every five to seven
years.
Governments request these reports through the intergovernmental process and the content
is deliberately policy-relevant, but steers clear of any policy-prescriptive statements.
Government representatives work with experts to produce the "summary for policymakers"
(SPM) that highlights the most critical developments in language accesible to the world's
political leaders.
The IPCC has issued comprehensive assessments in 1990, 1995, 2001, 2007 and 2014,
methodology reports, technical papers, and periodic special reports assessing specific impacts
of climate change.
Scholars, academics and students can dig into the chapters and supplementary materials for
a thorough and deeper understanding of the evidence.
11. The Latest report of IPCC
The IPCC is currently in its Sixth Assessment cycle, during which the IPCC
will produce the Assessment reports of its three Working Groups, three
Special Reports, a refinement to the methodology report and the Synthesis
Report. The Synthesis Report will be the last of the AR6 products, due for
release in 2022.
The latest report warns India that it will likely face irreversible impacts of
climate change, with increasing heat waves, droughts and erratic rainfall
events in the coming years if no mitigation measures are put in place.
13. The Indian Network on Climate Change Assessment (INCCA) is a proposed
network of scientists in India set up by India's environment ministry. It brings
together 250 scientists from 125 Indian research institutions and collaborate with
international organisations. It will contribute formally to the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Union Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav said in his tweet message that the
report is a clarion call for the developed countries to undertake immediate, deep
emission cuts, and decarbonisation of their economies.
India played a major role in assuring the success of the Paris Climate summit and
Prime Minister Modi’s personal intervention in the adoption of the landmark Paris
Agreement was acknowledged by several world leaders. His initiative on the
setting up an International Solar Alliance for promoting solar power worldwide was
welcomed.
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15. What Does the IPCC’s Landmark Climate
Report Say About India?
16. • India has a growing urban population, so the IPCC’s verdict on
cities is significant. Cities are typically hotter than their
surrounding areas due to the urban heat island effect. Cities
also alter the local water cycle, which may result in more
rainfall and poorer drainage, thus increasing the overall flood
risk.
• the verdict for India is clear: the country (along with the rest of
the world) is hurtling towards a potential climate disaster.
• With a high baseline mean temperature, even a small
temperature rise will make for greater human discomfort and
environmental change, leading to loss of livelihoods and in some
cases even outright uninhabitability
17. • The disruption of complex monsoon phenomena, on which
India’s farmers depend for sustenance, is likely to cause
additional widespread hardship.
• As a developing country with much of its population still
engaged in agriculture – and hence to be maximally impacted
– India also has fewer resources to adapt to these changes
than many other countries
• India’s size, economy and socio-economic conditions together
mean that the country is likely to be more impacted than
many others. It’s crucial that it plans and implements a
climate adaptation programme on a war footing.
