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NEW DELHI, India, Mar 16 2021 (IPS) - Climate change is one of the most pressing issues that the world is collectively facing at the moment. It is contended that strengthening the global response is pertinent to combat the threat of climate change.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted in 1992 that entered into force on 21 March, 1994, primarily aims to prevent anthropogenic interference in the earth’s climate system and stabilize Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions.
With this aim, the Conference of Parties meets every year to assess progress and review documents by countries on their plans to combat climate change.
By Simi Mehta, Ritika Gupta, Manoswini Sarkar
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues that the world is collectively facing at the moment. It is contended that strengthening the global response is pertinent to combat the threat of climate change.
1 The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted in 1992 that entered into force on 21 March, 1994, primarily aims to prevent anthropogenic interference in the earth’s climate system and stabilize Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. With this aim, the Conference of Parties meets every year to assess progress and review documents by countries on their plans to combat climate change.
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âGod played a cruel jokeâ: Cyclones have taken a toll on women in the Sundarbans
From losing family members to tiger attacks following cyclones to gradually losing their pisciculture business, they have suffered in almost every way possible.
Kousalya Mondal lost her husband and father-in-law to a tiger attack shortly after Cyclone Fani.
Sagarika Majhiâs life is punctuated by cyclones. Itâs how she divides her story into different chapters.
In 2010, Cyclone Aila devastated her village of Satjelia, lying in the centre of a ring of islands in West Bengalâs Sundarbans. Sagarika, 43, lost her farmland and ponds to the cycloneâs wrath and, as a result, her income from breeding catfish, parshe and tilapia.