South Asia’s climate migration is a ticking bomb
1 year, 6 months ago

South Asia’s climate migration is a ticking bomb

The Hindu  

June 5 marked the 50th anniversary of World Environment Day which was started by the United Nations in June 1972 at the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. Area of climate displacement hotspots South Asia houses the world’s most impacted climate displacement hotspots, including the Hindu Kush-Himalaya region, coastal areas, island nations, and deltaic and semi-arid regions. In South Asia, there have been over nine million internal displacements in 2020, making it the region having the highest number of new displacements due to climate change. The economic costs associated with climate migration in South Asia include loss of skilled labour, and reduced productivity in agriculture, fisheries, and forestry. Most countries in South Asia lack comprehensive policies to address climate displacement, and international aid has been insufficient to meet the needs of affected communities.

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Global South faces climate burden: India highlights challenges at COP29
1 month ago

Global South faces climate burden: India highlights challenges at COP29

India Today  

At the ongoing COP29 summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, India's Minister of State for Environment, Kirti Vardhan Singh, highlighted the critical juncture at which the global community stands in its collective fight against climate change. Speaking on behalf of the Global South, Singh pointed the disproportionate burden faced by developing nations due to climate change. Kirti Vardhan Singh also reiterated that …

Refugees on front lines of global climate crisis, warns UN
1 month, 1 week ago

Refugees on front lines of global climate crisis, warns UN

Al Jazeera  

Climate change is helping to drive a rising refugee crisis, adding to the huge numbers already displaced by conflict, according to a United Nations report. Three-quarters of the world’s forcibly displaced people live in countries heavily affected by climate hazards, the UN Refugee Agency said in the document released on Tuesday. “For the world’s most vulnerable people, climate change is …

Explained | Here’s how Asia fared in 2022 in terms of climate and extreme events
1 year, 4 months ago

Explained | Here’s how Asia fared in 2022 in terms of climate and extreme events

The Hindu  

The story so far: Drought, floods, and high temperatures were the critical disasters that plagued Asiain 2022, causing extensive damage to life and property. Central Asia, the Yangtze River Basin and the Huaihe River Basin in China, southwest and northwest Asia, and areas along the Arctic coast also recorded precipitation below normal. Siberia, northeast Asia, central India, India’s Western Ghats, …

What makes South Asia so vulnerable to climate change?
1 year, 5 months ago

What makes South Asia so vulnerable to climate change?

Al Jazeera  

Extreme weather events in the world’s most populous and one of the poorest sub regions susceptible to food insecurity, displacement and diseases. Food insecurity For thousands of years, South Asia was seen as the world’s “granary” for agriculture – a region with weather patterns well-suited for growing crops, Pakistan-based climate scientist Fahad Saeed told Al Jazeera. Environmentalist Anjal Prakash said …

Regional approach to climate crisis preparedness in Asia and the Pacific
1 year, 6 months ago

Regional approach to climate crisis preparedness in Asia and the Pacific

Hindustan Times  

Asia and the Pacific region has several climate vulnerable communities ranging from pacific communities, which face sudden and slow-onset disasters, rainfall variations and El Niño and La Niña climate patterns to Himalayan communities, which encounter extreme weather events like flash floods, landslides and debris flows worsened by climate crisis and depleting Himalayan glaciers. As the United Nations Environment Programme’s flagship …

CLIMATE CHANGE | India’s sweltering heatwaves cause unbearable suffering
1 year, 6 months ago

CLIMATE CHANGE | India’s sweltering heatwaves cause unbearable suffering

The Hindu  

Published : May 31, 2023 14:43 IST - 4 MINS READ Blistering heat has taken a toll on people’s lives in large parts of India as temperatures went as high as 45 degrees Celsius in recent weeks. If current warming trends continue, temperatures will rise so high that the human body’s ability to maintain a stable internal temperature and expel …

AP PHOTOS: In Delhi, migrants battered repeatedly by floods
2 years, 2 months ago

AP PHOTOS: In Delhi, migrants battered repeatedly by floods

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — For Bhagwan Devi, 38, and Shivakumar, 40, and their four children, a flood follows unseasonal rain so often now they have less and less time to pick up the pieces and start over again. Devi and Shivakumar had to flee their hut on the banks of the Yamuna River earlier this month as water levels rose without …

Climate migration: Indian kids find hope in a new language
2 years, 3 months ago

Climate migration: Indian kids find hope in a new language

LA Times  

Jerifa Islam stands outside her home in a poor neighborhood in Bengaluru, India, in July. A flood in 2019 in the Darrang district of India’s Assam state started Jerifa Islam, her brother Raju and their parents on a journey that led the family from their Himalayan village to the poor neighborhood. But the calamity started Jerifa and her brother, Raju …

Science-Wise: Pakistan Floods Brutal Reminder of How Indian Subcontinent Has Become a 'Climate Crisis Hotspot'
2 years, 3 months ago

Science-Wise: Pakistan Floods Brutal Reminder of How Indian Subcontinent Has Become a 'Climate Crisis Hotspot'

News 18  

Over 1,300 dead, millions displaced and a vast swathe of croplands submerged; Pakistan is facing one of its most devastating floods — the worst since 2010 — that have affected over 33 million people. It was quite unusual the way back-to-back depressions formed in Bay of Bengal this August, and all charted the same course across Central India up to …

Climate migration growing but not fully recognized by world
2 years, 4 months ago

Climate migration growing but not fully recognized by world

Associated Press  

TIJUANA, Mexico — Worsening climate largely from the burning of coal and gas is uprooting millions of people, with wildfires overrunning towns in California, rising seas overtaking island nations and drought exacerbating conflicts in various parts of the world. Over the next 30 years, 143 million people are likely to be uprooted by rising seas, drought, searing temperatures and other …

South Asia's record-breaking weather set to worsen as climate change brings more dangerous monsoon seasons
2 years, 6 months ago

South Asia's record-breaking weather set to worsen as climate change brings more dangerous monsoon seasons

ABC  

Shatadeepa is familiar with the heavy rain that heralds monsoon season in the Indian town of Silchar, but this year she has witnessed flooding like no other. Key points: Indian town Mawsynram has set a new June rainfall record of more than 990mm It comes amid warnings India will be one of the countries most vulnerable to extreme weather events …

India’s Borders & Climate Change: Tensions With Pak & Bangladesh Set to Grow?
2 years, 6 months ago

India’s Borders & Climate Change: Tensions With Pak & Bangladesh Set to Grow?

The Quint  

Peace and conflict in South Asia have traditionally been underpinned by three regional realities: internal issues of civil war and ethno-religious violence and separatism, military conflict between India and Pakistan, and political conflicts between India and the smaller states of Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, writes researcher and policy analyst MS Huda. South Asia is one of the most critically …

South Asian nations must collaborate on climate
2 years, 7 months ago

South Asian nations must collaborate on climate

Hindustan Times  

Regional cooperation in South Asia has been an exercise in hope but suboptimal in its outcome. Collaboration on technologies and finances, and the development of a common South Asian power market can lead to increased energy security while reducing power costs and GHG emissions. Based on the climate crisis challenges and current initiatives, five key areas emerge for regional cooperation: …

How much is climate change to blame for heatwaves in South Asia?
2 years, 7 months ago

How much is climate change to blame for heatwaves in South Asia?

Al Jazeera  

Hundreds of millions in India and Pakistan struggle to stay cool in record-breaking temperatures. Scientists have long warned that climate change will lead to more intense weather, such as heatwaves, floods and cyclones. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says India must drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions to avoid devastating weather events. Presenter: Dareen Abughaida Guests: Aruna Chandrasekhar – …

Photos: The Bangladesh town offering new life to climate migrants
2 years, 8 months ago

Photos: The Bangladesh town offering new life to climate migrants

Al Jazeera  

Monira Khatun was devastated after her husband suddenly abandoned her. “My parents’ home was gone to the river for erosion, we had no land to cultivate.” She ended up working at a factory in a special economic zone that employs thousands of climate refugees – like Khatun – in the southwestern town of Mongla, where Bangladesh’s second-largest seaport is located. …

Climate disasters rising faster in MENA than any other region
2 years, 8 months ago

Climate disasters rising faster in MENA than any other region

Al Jazeera  

Data from the past century shows temperatures in the region have risen by 1.5°C – twice the global increase, new International Monetary Fund study shows. Climate disasters in the region have injured and displaced seven million people in an average year, causing more than 2,600 deaths and $2bn in physical damage, an International Monetary Fund research paper showed. “Climate change …

UN: Climate change to uproot millions, especially in Asia
2 years, 9 months ago

UN: Climate change to uproot millions, especially in Asia

Associated Press  

JAKARTA, Indonesia — The walls of Saifullah’s home in northern Jakarta are lined like tree rings, marking how high the floodwaters have reached each year — some more than 4 feet from the damp dirt floor. “But it’s beginning to look like in Asia, there may be more of those in the future and we need to think really hard …

India stares at water scarcity, extreme heat stress: Report
2 years, 9 months ago

India stares at water scarcity, extreme heat stress: Report

Hindustan Times  

The Ganga, Indus, Amu Darya and other river basins in Asia could face severe water scarcity by 2050 due to climate crisis and related impacts that act as stress multipliers, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned on Monday. Overall, South Asia is among the most vulnerable regions in the world when it comes to severe climate impacts due to …

Batting for ‘One South Asia’ makes more sense
3 years, 1 month ago

Batting for ‘One South Asia’ makes more sense

The Hindu  

Over the course of four days, at the G20 in Rome and COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke at nearly a dozen events, expanding on India’s plans to counter climate change. Missing however, was any reference to India’s own region, the subcontinent, South Asia, without which India’s multiple forays on fighting climate change could well prove fruitless. …

Climate migration predicted to rise in India amid extreme weather
3 years, 1 month ago

Climate migration predicted to rise in India amid extreme weather

Al Jazeera  

Study says droughts, floods and heatwaves are fuelling climate migration as nation’s poorest are forced to abandon their homes. A rise in extreme weather events in India – from droughts and floods to heatwaves and hailstorms – is fuelling climate migration as the nation’s poorest are forced to abandon their homes, land and livelihoods, researchers say. “We cannot afford to …

Climate crisis could push 200 million to leave their homes by 2050 in worst case
3 years, 3 months ago

Climate crisis could push 200 million to leave their homes by 2050 in worst case

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The climate crisis could push more than 200 million people to leave their homes in …

Report: Climate change could see 200 million move by 2050
3 years, 3 months ago

Report: Climate change could see 200 million move by 2050

Associated Press  

BARCELONA, Spain — Climate change could push more than 200 million people to leave their homes in the next three decades and create migration hot spots unless urgent action is taken to reduce global emissions and bridge the development gap, a World Bank report has found. The second part of the Groundswell report published Monday examined how the impacts of …

Climate change could displace 200 million people within their own countries by 2050
3 years, 3 months ago

Climate change could displace 200 million people within their own countries by 2050

LA Times  

A boy, a member of the semi-nomadic Samburu people, uses a stick to try to chase away a swarm of desert locusts in Kenya. Climate change could push more than 200 million people to leave their homes in the next three decades and create migration hot spots unless urgent action is taken to reduce global emissions and bridge the development …

Displacement Explained: How Many Climate Refugees Does India Have?
3 years, 4 months ago

Displacement Explained: How Many Climate Refugees Does India Have?

The Quint  

Often, as is reflected in the IDMC data, displaced populations migrate within their countries, in which case they are referred to as 'internally displaced" and are protected under domestic laws. However, the absence of a uniform policy for internally displaced persons also lends itself to the broader ignorance towards the movement induced by climate change. This is muddled even further …

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