Climate change resilience actions, in step with India (Australia effort in combating climate change)

13 Feb Climate change resilience actions, in step with India (Australia effort in combating climate change)

• Climate change 

• • Along term change in temperature or other weather phenomenon
  • an increasingly pressing global issue, 
  • Require our collective efforts to ensure a sustainable future for all.
• Bushfires demonstrated -> importance of bringing together traditional Indigenous knowledge + modern science.
  • How australia is combating the issues
    • important job of regenerating habitats
    • helping native animals and ecology to recover 
    • building knowledge for better sustainable land management.
    • Australia will establish a new structure in governance such as
      • National Resilience
      • Relief and Recovery Agency which will drive the reduction of natural disaster risk to communities
      • enhance natural disaster resilience + ensure effective relief and recovery to all hazards. 
    • It’s support for the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure(CDRI)
  • Investing in + developing the green technologies 
• How Australia and India can come together on climate change
  • CDRI
  • accelerating new technologies such as 
    • Hydrogen
    • carbon capture use and storage
    •  soil carbon
    • energy storage to backup renewables and decarbonise transport
    •  Low or zero emissions steel and aluminium.
  • strengthen cooperation->
    • in pumped hydro storage
    • cost-effective battery technologies
    • hydrogen and coal gasification
    • adoption of clean energy technology
    • fly ash management technologies
    • solar forecasting and scheduling.
    • engage all stakeholders equally
    • respect indigenous culture
    •  knowledge in taking climate action

(The Hindu)

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Swarn Singh

Plutus IAS Current Affair Team Member