NEW DELHI (AlertNet) – Barriers preventing the transfer of clean technologies to help nations like India adopt low-carbon development must be removed if the world is to successfully address climate change, a new study has warned. With a population of 1.2 billion people, an economy growing at 8 to 9 percent annually and surging energy

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This year’s theme for World Environment Day is Forests-Nature At Your Service. Today, nowhere is Nepal’s self induced unsustainability more visible than perhaps in our forests. Traveling through parts of western Nepal with the Parliamentary Committee on Natural Resources and Mean’s Sub Committee on Forest last year, it was revealing to witness and hear about

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A study has mapped global “hotspots” where climate-induced food insecurity is most likely to happen in the future, and it includes India. The study, ‘Mapping Hotspots of Climate Change and Food Insecurity in the Global Tropics’, was produced by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). The work was undertaken

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Climate change sceptics are an endangered species in Australia, a national survey shows. The survey of almost 3100 Australians found 74 per cent believe the world’s climate is changing. When asked a different question about the causes of climate change, which removed the reference to personal beliefs, 90 per cent of respondents said human activity

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