SDG-13: Climate Action

The world is on the brink of a climate catastrophe and current actions and plans to address the crisis are insufficient. Without transformative action starting now and within this decade to reduce greenhouse gas emissions deeply and rapidly in all sectors, the 1.5°C target will be at risk and with it the lives of more than 3 billion people. Failure to act leads to intensifying heatwaves, droughts, flooding, wildfires, sea-level rise, and famines. Emissions should already be decreasing now and will need to be cut almost by half by 2030 – a mere seven years from now. To combat climate change and its impacts by 2030, urgent and transformative action is needed to meet the commitments under the Paris Agreement across mitigation and adaptation efforts.

Landslides in a changing climate
1024 576 Kainat Aziz

The environment is currently witnessing a discernible change in its intrinsic attributes as a result of changing global climate. The earlier alarming prediction of scientists on changing climate is coming…

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Melting glaciers might lead to new pandemics
1024 683 Adeela Hameed

Unfortunately, humans have been leading to the ruin of planet earth. They are opting for secure homes by disregarding the homes of other species. Disproportionate use of natural resources is…

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Saffron Farming in Kashmir: Status, Future, and Issues
766 1024 Adeela Hameed

Kashmir is one of the major saffron-producing regions and the second-largest contributor of saffron to the global market. Grown in the Karewa (highlands) soils of Kashmir, it is an important…

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Climate change – Challenges and Prospectus of Kashmir Apple Industry
1024 682 Zahoor Ahmad Dar

The possibility of having no apple trees might have deprived the world of Newton’s laws of gravitation or Steve Jobs’ Apple Company. Who says the apple is just a fruit,…

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Climate Change: A threat to livelihood of Gujjars-Bakarwals
960 588 Zahoor Ahmad Dar

The change in global precipitation, increasing surface temperatures, receding of glaciers, and unseasonal snowfall are all manifestations of climate change, posing an unprecedented threat to mankind. Pastures have turned into…

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SEA-LEVEL RISE AND REAL CHALLENGES FOR INDIAN COASTS
1020 612 JK Policy Institute

Author: Rahul Wankhede INTRODUCTION The accelerated heating of our planet has led to an unprecedented rise in the average sea levels world over primarily by: (1) mountain glaciers and polar…

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Environmental crisis on the Korean Peninsula
1024 538 Anamitra Banerjee

Hyping missile threats have caused the Korean peninsula to fall prey to a state of exigency. Seoul finds cues about the encroaching perils incoming from their immediate neighbor regularly. The…

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Water Scarcity and Kashmir’s Freshwater Springs
527 328 Adeela Hameed

Groundwater is an incredibly precious resource, to the extent of being titled the ‘survival lifeline of civilizations’. This is true because of a number of facts. The first is that…

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Climate Change: Deepening the vulnerability of Kashmir Himalayas
1024 683 Zahoor Ahmad Dar

Ever since the human evolutionary process got rolling, the climate has exerted influence on the evolutionary pattern and human lives and has also been affected by it in return. Alteration…

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