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India’s Biggest Climate Clock
- 25 Apr 2024
- 1 min read
Recently, the Council of Scientific &Industrial Research (CSIR), installed and activated India’s biggest Climate Clock at the CSIR Headquarters in New Delhi as a part of the Earth Day Celebrations.
- The event signifies CSIR’s aim to spread awareness about climate change and to make people energy literate.
- It was launched in 2015 to provide a measuring stick against which viewers can track climate change mitigation progress.
- It is a graphic to demonstrate how quickly the planet is approaching 1.5°C of global warming, given current emissions trends. It also shows the amount of CO2 already emitted, and the global warming to date.
- The date shown when humanity reaches 1.5°C will move closer as emissions rise, and further away as emissions decrease.
- As of 4th April 2024, the current climate temperature is 1.295°C.
