Topic

Climate Change

Current Affairs for Week 36 of 2026

  1. UNEP sets out an 'overshoot, peak and decline' pathway for the 1.5°C limit

    The UN Environment Programme, in a report released in Nairobi on 2 September, for the first time charted a detailed pathway for a world that temporarily overshoots the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 degrees Celsius goal. It warned of faster sea-level rise, coral reef collapse and food production declines of up to 14% by 2050 without adaptation.

    Source: The Hindu

  2. WMO says the current El Nino could be the strongest ever recorded

    The World Meteorological Organisation said on 3 September that El Nino is set to intensify into 2027 and could be the strongest on record. Its forecasts show a near 100% likelihood that the phenomenon will persist through February 2027, fuelled by exceptionally warm Pacific Ocean temperatures — the first time the agency has stated such certainty.

    Source: The Hindu

  3. Climate scientist Krishna AchutaRao dies at 62

    The professor at the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, IIT Delhi, died on 4 September. His work established the degree to which observed climatic change can be attributed to human activity, and demonstrated a detectable human influence on temperature changes across Indian sub-regions.

    Source: The Hindu