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Experts from Russia, India and Sri Lanka focus on protecting water resources

... and retired Ambassador, delivered welcoming remarks. The first session, “Current status of climate change and its impact on water resources”, gathered Anastasia Likhacheva, Director of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies,... ... Committee on Climate Change Adaptation, Government of Sri Lanka; and Fraddry D'Souza, Area Convener and Fellow at the Coastal Ecology & Marine Resources Centre, TERI Goa, India. The second session focused on finding the solutions to the existing challenges ...

31.07.2021

Experts from Russia, India and Sri Lanka to Discuss Marine and Fresh Water Resources Management

... Vladimir Putin taking part in the Leaders’ Summit on Climate 2021 and sustainable development goals finding their place in his annual Federal Assembly address and the new National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation. Protecting marine and fresh water resources as well as biodiversity is a key global interest. Russia shares it with South Asian countries, including India and Sri Lanka, notwithstanding geographic and socioeconomic differences that determine specific problems and priorities most ...

21.07.2021

India in Need of Air and Water

... the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change. However, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change believes that India is extremely vulnerable to climate changes that can cause not only a drop in farming productivity but also more acute water shortages. If the temperatures markedly increase, disastrous effects like the melting of the Himalayan glaciers and changes in the Indian Ocean monsoon pattern appear likely. The Indian government is hardly underestimating the ecology-generated damage to the national economy, but rather regards the solution of the ecological problems as unfeasible. According to the World Bank, lowering the atmospheric discharge of pollutants by 30 percent would cost India only 0.7 percent of ...

13.03.2015

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