Krishna Kant Gupta

New Delhi, March 7 -- Despite the differing worldviews of climate science and economics, considerable work over the past decade has sought to integrate the science with the economics of climate change. The development of Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) describes four alternative pathways with different levels of greenhouse gas emissions and radiative forcing that may occur in the future.

New Delhi, July 26 -- In one of the earlier articles in the series, I had discussed the importance of forests as a natural sink for absorbing carbon dioxide. Just like forests, oceans are another large sinks for carbon dioxide absorption. Quoting the World Resources Institute in an earlier article, we saw that oceans absorb 30 per cent of all carbon dioxide in the air and 90 per cent of excess heat: in all, the oceans hold 42 times more carbon than the atmosphere.