Tag: Climate Change

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India-led International Solar Alliance signs UN pact at COP26 in Glasgow

The India-led International Solar Alliance (ISA) and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) signed a memorandum of expertise on the COP26 weather summit in Glasgow on Friday, agreeing to collaborate and guide nations withinside the implementation of formidable countrywide weather movement in keeping with worldwide efforts. The MoU, signed via way of means of ISA Director-General Dr Ajay Mathur and UNFCCC Deputy Executive Secretary Ovais Sarmad, includes the 2 establishments operating to together organise a fixed of sports to facilitate the implementation of mitigation movement withinside the power sector, facilitate the implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and Long-time period Low Emission Development Strategies. The settlement may even lend guide to...
India

Climate crisis reason behind increase in lightning strikes

In 2019, there were 2,876 deaths due to lightning, compared with less than 1,500 on average, every year, between 1968 and 2004. At least 74 people were killed in a lightning strike in the last 24 hours in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh. Of these, 11 was a visitor who was killed on Sunday when lightning hit them at Fort Amer near Jaipur. The numbers may look high but shouldn't surprise anyone. Lightning storms accompanied by lightning strikes (usually in pre-monsoon and monsoon months) are the biggest single killers among natural disasters (extreme weather events) in India, according to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). Lightning strikes have killed at least 2,000 people every year in India since 2004, the Indian Meteorology Department (IMD) said last month in...