Reuters: Norway and Germany announced aid of more than $90 million on Tuesday for World Bank programmes to help slow tropical deforestation that is blamed for stoking climate change. Norway, the top donor to protecting tropical forests that absorb heat-trapping carbon dioxide as they grow, said it would give $50 million to a World Bank

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A new publication demonstrates through good practice case studies that UNESCO biosphere reserves are ideal places to test, to evaluate and to implement comprehensive climate change policies. This publication contains a selection of 28 case studies from around the world on good practice in this policy field and shows what UNESCO biosphere reserves are already

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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) have recently introduced energy efficient, smokeless brick-making technology to curb greenhouse gas emissions in Bangladesh. The new device, known as the Hybrid Hoffman Kiln, was originally developed in Germany to replace the older, highly pollutant brick-making technology. It was later modified in China

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DW-World.De: Melting glaciers usually serve as one of the most vivid reminders of global warming. Yet in some places – such as in parts of the Himalayan mountain range – climate change has actually made them advance. For centuries, the communities living at the foothills of the Himalayas have depended on the water that flows down from

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News Today: Renowned experts and scientists have suggested for conducting more research on climate change impacts, the main challenges the humanity now faces for survival, to find out ways of adapting with the deteriorating situations, reports BSS. They urged for directing the research works towards finding out the impacts of climate change at communities, social,

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WRI: In a survey of global businesses, 86 percent described responding to climate risks or investing in adaptation as a business opportunity. So finds a new report jointly released yesterday by the UN Global Compact, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Oxfam and the World Resources Institute. Already, businesses worldwide are beginning to see the risks

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Tribune Pakistan: Pakistan shares it’s water resources with not just China and India but Afghanistan as well which was a challenge that needed to be addressed because it could lead to increased tensions between these countries. During a policy dialogue held here at National University of Sciences & Technology (Nust) Dr Shahbaz Khan Chief of

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HuffPostGreen: Chinese officials announced Wednesday a three-day international conference to discuss how to address climate change, while conveying to the world that China is determined to develop a low-carbon economy. Representatives from 30 international organizations and 10 areas and countries will attend the conference in Beijing starting Wednesday, said Huang Wenhang of the National Development

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The Hindu: Daniel Bladh opens his essay titled ‘Global solidarity for climate change mitigation: Role of the European Union’ with ‘a tragic irony’: that the ones who have wrecked the environment the least are the very ones affected the most. “In Bangladesh, every citizen is responsible for the release of 0-2 tonne emissions of carbon

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Eldis Community: Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management Looking back, looking forward(23 pages, 1.7MB)Find out what SCR accomplished in 2010 and its vision for 2011. Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management (44 pages, 2MB) Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management in brief (6 pages, 394KB) Also available in the following languages:Bahasa Khmer Español Chinese Arabic Nepali New governance

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CBC News: A key climate change reduction strategy recommended by the United Nations won’t have much effect on global temperatures, according to a couple of Canadian scientists. Afforestation involves planting trees over croplands that aren’t very productive in order to absorb more carbon dioxide from the air. High emissions of carbon dioxide have been linked

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NIPCC: Climate change and its impact on the Himalayan glaciers – a case study on the Chorabari glacier, Garhwal Himalaya, India: “Based on the dating of lichens, developed on loops of moraines formed due to various stages of advance and retreat of the [Chorabari] glacier,” Chaujar (2009) pinpointed the time at which the warming that

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Hindustan Times: Controversy over the dam over Brahmaputra notwithstanding, India and China would soon start a joint study of Brahmaputra-Salween and the Kangchenjunga landscapes to find out the impact of climate change on the local habitation, as desired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The environment ministry has sought the external affairs ministry’s approval to spend

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Mongabay: Tropical reforestation more effective than temperate afforestation for slowing global warming. Preserving forest cover and reforesting cleared areas in the tropics will more effectively reduce temperatures than planting trees across temperate croplands, argues a new paper published in Nature Geoscience. Using computer models, Vivek Arora and Alvaro Montenegro estimate that converting all the world’s

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Mountains provide a suite of ecosystem services, including biodiversity and water, that are critical not only to mountain communities but to the people who live downstream from these systems. Yet mountain regions are disproportionately vulnerable to global change and socioeconomic and demographic pressures. The Mountain Research Initiative will bring together a small number of leading

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Expertclick.com: Since the late 1980s a “consensus” of scientists, we were told, agreed that the Earth was in a period of “global warming” and anybody who disputed that was a “skeptic” or a “denier” Then, in 1998, the Earth began to cool. The handful of scientists at the heart of the global warming hoax began

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Mail & Guardian Online: In the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) conference just completed in Bonn, Germany, the underlying assumption was the same as usual-a man-made climate crisis is looming. To stop it, we need to revolutionise the way we generate energy. No country’s delegates dare contradict this, a central theses of

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