M-20 CAMPAIGN
No End To The Himalayan Blunder?
The response to recent Uttarakhand disaster is seemingly inadequate, writes Dr. Sudhirendar Sharma. It has not only been a policy failure but institutional inadequacies lie exposed too. Mountain peculiarities have remained an exercise in academic deliberations. Often piecemeal and repetitive, several high level committees of the state have neither been able to foresee latent threats
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- Global Green Economy Partnership Calls for Shift in Investment to Green Jobs, Industry and Trade
- Farming on Sand
- Bangladesh Warns of Rising Climate Change Costs as Donations Plummet
- Swiss Seek Precision as Nations Shape Carbon Market
- Senate Sub-Committee to Launch the First Ever Media Manual on Environment
- New Incentives to Encourage Investments in Renewable Energy
- Arctic Melt Speeding Up
- GIC Develops Project for Climate Change Awareness Among MSMEs
- Exploring Resilience in Climate Compatible Development
News
(Reuters) – The world must increase its food production by 60 percent by mid-century or risk serious food shortages that could bring social unrest and civil wars, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Monday. Demand for food will rise rapidly over the next few decades as the world population surpasses 9 billion
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Global Green Economy Partnership Calls for Shift in Investment to Green Jobs, Industry and Trade
UNEP News Center: Countries that have begun to embrace a green economy approach say that they realize a fundamental change in national planning and investment is required to reach their sustainable development and poverty eradication ambitions. More than 450 participants from 66 countries – including 27 ministers – presented their national perspectives at the first global
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Farming on Sand
Climate News Network: The holes are dug laboriously in the dusty, sandy soil. Krishna Maya Sharma stops her work to wipe the sweat from her lined face. “In the old days we would plant paddy here and have enough to sell at market” says Krishna, a 42 year old mother of six children. “Now the soil
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Bangladesh Warns of Rising Climate Change Costs as Donations Plummet
The Guardian: Bangladesh needs $5bn (£3bn) over the next five years to adapt to current climate changes, and the cost is rising each year, according to a lead negotiator for developing countries in the UN climate talks, which resume in Bonn on Monday. It, and other developing countries, may have been promised $30bn as “fast-start finance” before
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Swiss Seek Precision as Nations Shape Carbon Market
Nations setting up carbon markets must standardize their emission-reduction benchmarks to ensure international efforts to limit global warming stay on track, according to Switzerland’s climate envoy. At least 30 of 200 countries meeting at talks this week in Bonn are developing carbon trading systems to help meet emissions targets under a worldwide treaty to start in
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New Incentives to Encourage Investments in Renewable Energy
Over the next decade, Britain will need £200 billion pounds is needed to reach its low-carbon energy investment. The European Union is legally binded by the Kyoto Protocol to reduce their emissions by 20 per cent from the levels of the 90’s by 2020. Since the launch of the Green Investment Bank (GIB) in 2012,
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Exploring Resilience in Climate Compatible Development
What is resilience and what implications does it have for climate compatible development (CCD) in South Asia? This important question was raised by excellent presentations from CDKN’s partners carrying out action research on achieving climate-smart disaster risk reduction in South Asia during a CDKN/START session on February 8, 2014 at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit
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Adaptation Ideas
The Awesome Things These 6 Cities Are Doing for Wildlife
When conservationists worry about the prospect of a world without wildlife, they often focus on two related developments: the sprawling growth of crowded cities and suburbs and the push to farm more land, and farm it more intensively, to feed those cities. Together, these two forces have worn the natural world down to tattered remnants.
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Bhutan
Nissan Signs a Deal with Bhutan to Supply Electric Cars to Help Reach Zero Emissions
The remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has signed a deal with Japanese auto giant Nissan to become the ultimate showcase for electric cars, taking advantage of its abundance of hydropower. The announcement was made during a visit on Friday by Nissan chief executive Carlos Ghosn to Thimphu, the picturesque capital of Bhutan. Prime Minister Tshering
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India
GIC Develops Project for Climate Change Awareness Among MSMEs
Times News Network: Gujarat Institute of Competitiveness (GIC) has developed a project to create awareness among micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) on climate change. Major initiatives under the project will be a climate change innovation contest to be held at universities, a help desk at industry associations, a communication centre and a research centre to
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Nepal
Keene State College Grad Taking Science Study to New Heights on Mount Everest
Keene State College graduate Jake St. Pierre has been invited to join a small team of climbers and scientists tasked with studying climate change on Mount Everest. “It’s a cool earth-friendly project, and I’m happy to be a part of it,” St. Pierre said Monday. St. Pierre of Concord will join the Lhotse Snow Science
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Pakistan
Senate Sub-Committee to Launch the First Ever Media Manual on Environment
The Nation: Pakistan’s first-ever media manual for journalists covering environmental issues and climate change will be launched by Senate Sub-Committee on Environment on Monday at 11:00am at Pakistan Institute of Parliamentary Services (PIPS), Islamabad. This was announced by the convener of the committee Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed while discussing the role of the media in promoting the
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Books
Energy, Development and Climate Change: Striking a Balance
The paper, “Energy, Development and Climate Change: Striking a Balance”, examines the energy scenario – availability, access, influence of markets and government policies – in rural India, especially in the areas where WOTR has been working. It highlights the successful partnership between local communities, with their innate grounded wisdom and local knowledge, and modern researchers
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Glaciers
Arctic Melt Speeding Up
Climate News Network: Ice in the Arctic continues to retreat. The season without ice is getting longer by an average of five days every 10 years, according to a new study in Geophysical Research Letters. And in some regions of the Arctic, the autumn freeze is now up to 11 days later every decade. This means that
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Technologies
New Climate Satellite for ESA to Track GHG’s for Key Data
Airbus Defence and Space, Europe’s leading space company, will be pushing ahead with the preparation of CarbonSat, a new climate satellite for the European Space Agency (ESA), over the next 2 years. In December 2013, ESA kicked off the Phase A2 activities which will be followed by the Phase B1 starting in late summer to
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IPCC
Scorcher Summers Predicted for Europe: Study
Agence France-Press: Europe is headed for scorching summers with temperatures well over 40 degrees Celsius (104 deg Fahrenheit) and droughts in the south within the next 40 years, climate scientists said Friday. Europe is expected to witness some of the most dramatic climatic changes due to global warming, according to research published in the journal Environmental
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Global Warming
Human-caused Global Warming Theory Weakening
The primary evidence linking human activity to global warming is getting shakier every year. There should have been about +0.4°C of surface warming since 1998 brought on by an accelerating rise in CO2 levels, according to IPCC models. There has not been. This is a big deal; the IPCC says earth’s temperature has risen only +0.85°C
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