LIGHTS opened its doors to the most interested and vibrant school teachers of Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, to train them and through them the GenX, about the dynamical GIS, GPS and remote sensing techniques.

Financing climate change is an effort to help countries especially the developing ones to cope with the challenges of global warming. Developed countries have the onerous responsibility to provide sufficient funds in order to equip the poorer nations to mitigate climate change.

The Kotumsar caves are well known for its stalactite and stalagmite formations and hold the key to climate change studies as also many precious cavernicole species that are in urgent need of conservation.

An endemic species of spiderwort thought to be lost from the forested realms of Western Ghats has again been found in the wild. All efforts are being made to conserve this rare plant that holds great medicinal values.

Over 60 percent of India’s population depend on the agricultural sector which constitutes about 14.3 per cent of India’s gross domestic product, 2010-11, as per the Central Statistics Office, New Delhi. Despite technological interventions, about two thirds of India’s agricultural area remain rainfed and vulnerable to present day climate variability. The implications of climate change is yet not very clear, although scholars agree that global climate change will lead to greater unpredictability of weather conditions at local levels.

Apprehensions about climate continue to rise, despite our limited ability to make precise assessments of its impact. This is partially due to the complexity of chemical and physical processes at various scales and also due to confounding factors from other changes such as air pollution.

An assessment of the impact of climate change on forest ecosystems in India has been attempted with the forest vulnerability index for India - worked out on the basis of forest canopy density, biodiversity and projected impact of climate change.

The urban environment of modern India has undergone dramatic changes predominated by concrete structures, congested commercial spaces and incessant traffic. The degeneration of living environment in urban areas has severely disrupted the balance of urban climate as tree cover is eliminated to make way for ‘development’.