{"id":214958,"date":"2022-11-18T18:37:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=214958"},"modified":"2022-11-18T18:37:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:07:47","slug":"union-minister-for-environment-forest-and-climate-change-participates-in-a-session-on-accelerating-resilient-infrastructure-in-small-island-developing-states-sids-at-cop-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-minister-for-environment-forest-and-climate-change-participates-in-a-session-on-accelerating-resilient-infrastructure-in-small-island-developing-states-sids-at-cop-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Minister for Environment Forest and Climate Change participates in a session on \u201cAccelerating Resilient Infrastructure in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)\u201d at COP 27"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>Union Minister for Environment Forest and Climate Change participates in a session on \u201cAccelerating Resilient Infrastructure in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)\u201d at COP 27\u201d<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> PIB on 17th November 2022<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Union Minister for Environment Forest and Climate Change has addressed a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">session on Accelerating Resilient Infrastructure in Small Island Developing States(SIDS).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What are the key highlights from his address?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>India\u2019s low per capita emissions: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) states that the responsibility for warming is directly proportional to the contribution to cumulative emissions of carbon dioxide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we consider per capita emissions for an objective scale for comparison, India\u2019s emissions are even today about one-third of the global average.If the entire world were to emit at the same per capita level as India there would be no climate crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> According to a\u00a0 United Nations Environment Programme(UNEP) report, India\u2019s per capita greenhouse gas emissions at 2.4 tCO2e (tonne carbon dioxide equivalent) is far below the world average of 6.3 tCO2e.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Per capita emissions in the US (14 tCO2e) are far above the global average followed by Russia (13 tCO2e), China (9.7 tCO2e), Brazil and Indonesia (around 7.5 tCO2e each) and the European Union (7.2 tCO2e).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>India\u2019s Vulnerability to Climate disasters<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: \u200b\u200bIndia with over 7,500 km of coastline and more than 1,000 islands in the surrounding seas and a large coastal population dependent on the sea for livelihood is a highly vulnerable nation on the global scale.For instance, India recorded 1,058 climatic disasters between 1995 and 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What is Infrastructure for Resilient Island States(IRIS) Initiative?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-and-uk-join-hands-to-help-small-island-nations-build-climate-resilient-infrastructure\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cUnion Minister for Environment Forest and Climate Change participates in a session on \u201cAccelerating Resilient Infrastructure in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)\u201d at COP 27\u201d published in PIB on 17th November 2022 What is the News? The Union Minister for Environment Forest and Climate Change has addressed&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-minister-for-environment-forest-and-climate-change-participates-in-a-session-on-accelerating-resilient-infrastructure-in-small-island-developing-states-sids-at-cop-27\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Union Minister for Environment Forest and Climate Change participates in a session on \u201cAccelerating Resilient Infrastructure in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)\u201d at COP 27<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-214958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704747027},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}