REPORT: Long  before the media blitz that engulfed the IPCC in misguided controversy over the Himalayan glacier error leading up to COP 15, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) saw the need for more and better knowledge on the effects of climate change in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya (HKH) region.  Therefore, MFA tapped CICERO to

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The geographical coverage of SIDA-Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency supported initiative ‘Adaptation Knowledge Platform‘ or (Regional Climate Change Adaptation Knowledge Platform ) with international partners like SEI-Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), the Swedish Environmental Secretariat for Asia (SENSA), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) includes: Cambodia, China, Lao PDR,

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Nature has blessed us with an ample of good things which we should learn to tame and preserve it. Worldwide consortium for Climate Change in hand is reeling under a trouble due to global climate change and in other hand continues depletion of natural resources is not stopping. A modernisation due to rapidly growing industrialization

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As the devastating floods in Pakistan showed, atmospheric pollutants are disturbing the Himalayan region’s weather patterns – and local economies. But India has a pivotal opportunity to cut ‘black carbon’ emissions and minimize the damage. New Delhi; Palo Alto and Orange, Calif. It is widely known from satellite imagery and on-the-ground intelligence that the Arctic

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