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					<title>Flooding caused the greatest economic damages in Asia in 2022, says WMO report</title>
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					<pubDate>02 Aug 2023 13:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Simrin Sirur]]>
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						<![CDATA[Simrinsirur]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Asian region was battered by extreme events driven by climate change, with flooding emerging as a particularly frequent and damaging threat, a new report by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) released at the end of July, shows. India suffered the third highest losses in the region on account of flooding, amounting to over $4.2 billion, the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Asian region was battered by extreme events driven by climate change, with flooding emerging as a particularly frequent and damaging threat, a new report by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) released at the end of July, shows. India suffered the third highest losses in the region on account of flooding, amounting to over $4.2 billion, the report found. The warming trend in Asia between the years 1991 and 2022 was almost double the warming trend during the 1961 to 1990 period, says the WMO report. In 2022, mean surface temperatures were either the second or third warmest on record over Asia, at about 0.72 degrees Celsius above the 1991-2020 average and 1.68 degrees Celsius above the 1961-1990 average, which is the WMO’s reference period for assessing climate change. Global mean surface temperature reached 1.15 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels last year. While these rising temperatures have brought with them worsening heatwaves, precipitation, sea level rise and drought over the last year, flooding was the leading cause of death and damage in the region in 2022, according to the report. The Asian region experienced a total of 81 natural hazard events last year, according to the WMO’s Emergency Events Database, of which over 83% were flood and storm events. “Normally, high land surface temperatures should pass onto the sea. But because ocean temperatures are also rising at a faster rate, it is causing heat to trap,” explained Abinash Mohanty, an expert reviewer for the IPCC’s sixth assessment report on climate change and Sector&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2023/08/flooding-caused-greatest-economic-damages-in-asia-in-2022-says-wmo-report/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Renegotiate Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan to factor in climate change: parliamentary panel</title>
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					<pubDate>09 Sep 2021 11:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Athar Parvaiz]]>
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						<![CDATA[Aditi Tandon]]>
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							<![CDATA[A parliamentary standing committee has recently urged the Government of India to renegotiate the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) with Pakistan, as climate change and environmental impact assessment (EIA) issues are missing in the original 1960 treaty. This is the first formal attempt by India to raise questions over the basic structure of IWT, citing environmental [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A parliamentary standing committee has recently urged the Government of India to renegotiate the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) with Pakistan, as climate change and environmental impact assessment (EIA) issues are missing in the original 1960 treaty. This is the first formal attempt by India to raise questions over the basic structure of IWT, citing environmental and climate change issues. The Indus Water Treaty is a UN-recognised trans-boundary water-sharing agreement between India and Pakistan signed by the two countries in 1960 for sharing the waters of the Indus basin. Under this treaty, Pakistan was allocated the waters of the Indus and its westward flowing tributaries, the Jhelum and Chenab, while India was given exclusive rights over the eastern rivers Ravi, Beas and Sutlej. The treaty between India and Pakistan is considered a success story in water diplomacy, more so for its survival despite the other conflicts between the two countries. The two south Asian neighbours have frequently held talks following disagreements over water-sharing. But, climate change and environmental impact assessment have so far not been reasons for demanding re-negotiating or reviewing the 1960 treaty. This is the first time in the past 60 years that India has felt the need for re-negotiating the treaty. The parliamentary standing committee submitted its report earlier this month urging the government to initiate the process for renegotiating the treaty with Pakistan. “Present-day pressing issues such as climate change, global warming and environmental impact assessment etc. were not taken into account by the treaty. In view of this,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2021/09/renegotiate-indus-water-treaty-with-pakistan-to-factor-in-climate-change-parliamentary-panel/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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