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• Droughts

• GLOF/LLOF UK Feb2021

• Discussion at UNSC • The Council was discussing the impact of climate-related disasters on international peace and security after the Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peace building Affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, said that the trends of heat waves, heavier rains, higher sea levels and severe damage to agriculture “represent a security risk for the entire world. EVS POLLUTION

• (22% of the global population) live in places where challenges such as drought, famine, conflict, and population displacement and weak health services have left them without access to basic care -WHO list of 10 global health threats which demand immediate attention from WHO

• Greenland is a self-governing island of Denmark. It has huge reserves of rare Earth minerals that can be used for creating super strong magnets which are used in wind turbines, electric vehicles, aircrafts & high-tech weapons. Greenland Glaciers melting so, mining companies in race to extract those rare minerals. Challenge? Rare earth minerals' ores naturally contain uranium and thorium. Processing involves the separation and removal of uranium and thorium, which results in TENORM wastes. Technologically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (TENORM)

• Disaster Resilient Infra

• India’s first ever national forecast model from IITM, Pune on the impact of global warming on the subcontinent in the coming century, expects annual rainfall to increase, along with more severe cyclones and — paradoxically — more droughts. Also heat waves likely to be three or four times higher
• The World Health Organisation (WHO) list of 10 global health threats which demand immediate attention - More than 1.6 billion people (22% of the global population) live in places where protracted crises (through a combination of challenges such as drought, famine, conflict, and population displacement) and weak health services leave them without access to basic care
• World Air Quality Report highlights elevated air pollution levels as a result of climate change events, such as sandstorms, wildfires and pollution gains from the rapid urbanization of cities in regions such as Southeast Asia.
• There is no provision for compensation to the victims of dam failures in Dam Safety Bill 2018 which was a key recommendation of the June 2011 report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee (15th Lok Sabha) on Dam Safety Bill, 2010.
• Chemical Disasters