Setting Up Institute To Study Global Warming

This is a proposal to set up an institute to study the impact of global warming/climatic changes etc. Based on the discussions of a Brainstorming meeting, held on June 1, 2007 organized by the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), involving experts working on climate change and representatives from all the concerned Ministries, Non-governmental organizations, and academic and scientific institutions, a coordinated research programme on climate change shall be launched to study all associated science aspects of climate change viz. Carbon and Nitrogen cycles; Asian Brown Cloud (ABC).

As part of climate change programme, there is a proposal for the establishment of a dedicated Centre to undertake research on Science aspects of climate change at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune.

This information was given by the Union Minister for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences Shri Kapil Sibal in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.

Source : Press Information Bureau
Date : September 07, 2007