mai 21, 2013
South Asia in search of coordinated climate policy - BusinessMirror
The online version of the Philippines' leading business newspaper features virtually all the stories and statistical data available in the print edition.
CGIAR Climate's insight:
Photo: P. Casier (CGIAR). South Asia has always been a climatic hot spot. According to Pramod Aggarwal, South Asia principal researcher and regional program leader for agriculture and food security for the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), over 70 percent of the region is prone to drought, 12 percent to floods and 8 percent to cyclones. “Climate stress has always been normal [here]; climate change will make things worse,” he said.