More progress on substantive issues is needed to keep the climate talks headed in the right direction. As negotiators prepare to gather in Bonn, Germany, for the latest round of UN climate talks, there’s a pressing need to put substance ahead of politics in moving toward greater international cooperation on climate change. As the clock

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Oslo – Many developing nations are missing out on a surge in investments in clean energy and need to cut red tape and agree new rules to attract funds to help fight climate change, a UN finance guidebook said on Thursday. Clean energy sector investments worldwide grew 30% in 2010 from 2009 to a record

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China’s drought along its biggest river, the Yangtze, is for some scientists a demonstration of how global warming could increasingly disrupt the complex dance of air flows, rains and waterways that feeds dams and farming heartlands. Many older farmers around Lake Honghu, part of the drought-stricken Yangtze River basin, said summers and winters had seemed

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GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE WORKING PAPER NO. 11-02 Climate change is changing our world. Not only is it changing our physical world, but also our intellectual, social, and moral worlds, in ways that we could not have imagined a generation or two ago. The science of climate change, and the political impasses associated with

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KATHMANDU, June 3: While melting glaciers and preparedness on future catastrophic earthquake that could destroy the nation’s capital have been highly emphasized and imprinted in the general psyche, the flames that time and again engulf Nepal’s forests, and the massive natural and socio-economic implications that tags along with it, have been under the shadows. The statistics

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