Scheduled on 28 February, Bangkok, Thailand: Adaptation to climate change is a complex process, which can be characterized as decision making under a pall of uncertainties. It entails an intelligent assessment of risks and opportunities associated with climate change for the natural environment as well as the human civilization, identification and appraisal of adaptation options

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The Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology-WIHG, will be organizing an International conference on Indian Monsoon and Himalayan Geodynamics on Nov 2-4, 2011 at WIHG Dehradun, India. The conference will be followed by one day post seminar field excursion on November 5, 2011. The themes will include continental and marine records of climate, source-sink relationship, extreme

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Higher emissions targets are more efficient, according to a draft policy document setting out a low-carbon roadmap to 2050. Proposals to raise Europe’s ambitions on tackling climate change have been strongly boosted by a new analysis showing tougher action on greenhouse gases is “cost-effective” and already achievable in practice. Europe’s existing targets will be easily

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More than 100 young people from 37 countries will attend an international conference on global warming from Feb. 20 to 25 in Yogyakarta. The conference was organized by Gadjah Mada University (UGM), the Yogyakarta provincial administration and the Youth and Sports Ministry. Riorini Dyah Moehkarti of UGM’s international affairs office said there have been dozens

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With an objective to mitigate the impacts of climate change on water resources in the mountain ecosystem, three-day workshop (February 9-11) was held at Paro. Presentations on measures to fight such impacts were made by the participants from India and Nepal, which were relevant to Bhutan. Besides, participants were also briefed on the intact water

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