- A new study by the Grantham Research Institute at London School of Economics has revealed that the U.S. is among the six G20 countries that have failed to act in line with its Paris Agreement pledges to cut emissions.
- The other countries are Argentina, Australia, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
- Exposing the gap between rhetoric and action, the study, launched here on Thursday, is based on an assessment of past and present climate mitigation action by G20 countries.
This assessment is against three indicators:
- the consistency of domestic emissions reductions targets with those pledged in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)
- progress towards meeting 2020 emissions reduction targets pledged under the Copenhagen Accord and the Cancun Agreements
- past performance in ratcheting up the ambition for climate change mitigation based on the evidence of countryresponses to the Kyoto Protocol, the Copenhagen Accord and the Cancun Agreements.
- The authors say that the study focussed on the G20 countries because they represent 80 per cent of global emissions and over 85 per cent of global GDP and hence have a significant role to play in mitigating climate change.
36 of the 50 most climate affected countries are in sub Saharan Africa
- In 2010, China had on average 1,595 deaths due to air pollution every day, as opposed to India’s 1,432 deaths per day.
- India had more people dying every day as a result of outdoor air pollution in 2015 than China – a first since 1990.
- According to a Greenpeace India report released here on Wednesday, India overtook China in the number of deaths caused by air pollution last year.
The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) data
- Analysing The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) data compiled by the Institute
for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in Seattle, the report found.
- India had 3,283 premature deaths due to ambient air pollution every day, as opposed to China’s 3,233 per day.
- The number of deaths per day due to air pollution in India has risen from 2,139 per day in 1990 to 3,238 in 2015.
Defense Institute of High Altitude Research (DIHAR)
- The Leh based lab of the DRDO, the world’s highest agro animal research laboratory Defense Institute of High Altitude Research (DIHAR)
- Rhodiola Locally called ‘Solo’ in Ladakh is a wonder plant that has immune modulatory [enhancing immune], adaptogenic [adapting to difficult climatic condition] and Radio protectingabilities due to presence of secondary metabolites and phytoactive compounds unique to the plant,”
- Rhodiola, a herb found in the cold and highland climate,
- R.B. Srivastava, Director, DIHAR
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