International Relations in India & Beyond
Over and over at the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, world leaders have stressed the need to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. The 2015 Paris Agreement commits countries to limit the global...
Encouraged by President Jair Bolsonaro, deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest surged to its highest annual level in a decade over the past year, with researchers warning that the accelerated destruction of the critical carbon sink...
The UNFCC defines climate change as “a change in climate which is attributed directly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in adoption to natural climate variability...
The world’s largest rainforest spans over 9 countries and covers 45 percent of the area in South America. The 2019 forest fires of Amazon brought the issue to the mainstream where the fire extended...
Last year, the far-right populist leader, Jair Bolsonaro, was elected as the President of Brazil in a narrow victory against his more leftist rival, Fernando Haddad. Bolsonaro ran his presidential campaign with a fervent...
Ricardo Galvão, the former director of Brazil’s space and climate-monitoring agency, left his position earlier this month after defending scientific findings that showed that the world’s largest tropical rainforest is undergoing a sharp increase in deforestation. ...
