IDRC: Canada’s International Development Research Centre’s (IDRC) support to developing countries has been in the form of research aimed at promoting growth and development thereby resulting innovative and lasting local solutions for the communities that need it most.  IDRC’s Climate Change and Water (CCW) Program with the purpose of helping researchers from developing country helps [...]

Forestry Nepal: This assessment report assesses the nature and type of climate change impacts on forests in general and forest in Nepal, by reviewing available literature and compiling the observations. A key conclusion coming out of this review is that climate change is not only an issue of international concern but is now a local [...]

TelegraphIndia: At a time when public spending is being slashed in every direction, British aid to India has become a political embarrassment. Again and again you hear it: why on earth are we still giving money to people who live inside one of the world’s most dynamic economies? The question has become a useful stick [...]

The NEWS Pakistan: The debate on climate change necessitates re-definition of security from the state to the individual, which implies ensuring the political, social and economic rights through social, economic and political reforms.Head of Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at National Defence University Dr Noman Omar Sattar stated this at seminar on ‘Looming dangers [...]

Tribune Pakistan: Asian Development Bank (ADB) has said it will launch the Asia Accelerated Solar Energy Development Fund with $2.25 billion as it targets solar power projects in countries including China, India, Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Thailand to add another 1,000 megawatts next year and 1,500MW in 2013. “By providing an enabling environment for commercial lending [...]

MensNewsDaily-MSD: In 2008, Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, declared in a speech: “We in the IPCC do not prescribe any specific action, but action is a must.” Gee, it must have been some other Rajendra Pachauri who, during an interview with Yale University’s Environment 360 magazine a few months [...]

Now in the second year, the Indigenous and Traditional Peoples Conservation Fellowship, sponsored by Conservation International and the Secretariat for the Convention on Biological Diversity is open for a new round of applications. This Fellowship was established to create opportunities for leaders and scholars from indigenous and traditional peoples communities and organizations to explore solutions [...]

The INTERNATIONAL GREEN AWARDS™, a programme which recognises inspiring, innovative and effective approaches to sustainability, is now open and accepting entries from across the globe! Are you a visionary organisation or individual looking to truly test your initiatives and achievements against the best organisations from around the globe and achieve a benchmark for international excellence? [...]

MiamiHerald: The United Nations Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organization reported June 14 that widespread implementation of just 16 measures to reduce emissions of black carbon and ozone (principally the precursors methane and carbon dioxide) can give the world a fighting chance of limiting global temperature rise to 2 degrees or less. These proven [...]

EnvironmentalLeaders: Discovery Channel has a rather curious show called Myth Busters. The show evaluates various myths — from MacGyver tricks to the Apollo 11 Moon landing — by staging them in a controlled setting. You may wonder why this may be relevant to renewable energy. The truth is, this entertainment show has more things in [...]

UN REDD Newsletter: At the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNFPII), the UN-REDD Programme presented its forthcoming FPIC and Recourse Guidelines, and joint guidelines for stakeholder engagement recently developed with the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility and Forest Investment Program. The issue of upholding the rights of Indigenous Peoples in forest management was a hotly [...]

IFPRI: Changes in the agriculture sector are essential to mitigate and adapt to climate change, ensure food security for the growing population, and improve the livelihoods of poor smallholder producers. What agricultural strategies are needed to meet these challenges? To what extent are there synergies among these strategies? This paper examines these issues for smallholder [...]

News Kerala: A majority of corporate leaders around the world feel that investing in areas related to climate change adaptation offered a good business opportunity. Businesses worldwide are beginning to see the risks and economic impacts of more frequent and intense storms, water scarcity, declining agricultural productivity and poor health. Climate adaptation offers competitive advantages [...]

Scientific American: Climate change is a foregone conclusion. The amount of carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere from two centuries-worth of fossil fuel burning (and, apparently, with decades more worth to come, given the glacial pace of efforts to slow said emissions) is enough to substantially warm global average temperatures. And that leaves so-called geoengineering—the [...]

Reuters: Charlie Bragg gazes across his lush fields where fat lambs are grazing, his reservoirs filled with water, and issues a sigh of relief. Things are normal this year and that’s a bit unusual of late. His 7,000-acre farm near the Australian town of Cootamundra is testament to the plight facing farmers around the globe: [...]

IUCN Press Release: Manas Wildlife Sanctuary in the eastern Himalaya foothills of India has been removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger, following the advice of IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature). A UNESCO/IUCN monitoring mission to the Sanctuary earlier this year noted the progress made so far to increase the population [...]

NPR: The American public is less likely to believe in global warming than it was just five years ago. Yet, paradoxically, scientists are more confident than ever that climate change is real and caused largely by human activities. Something a bit strange is happening with public opinion and climate change. Anthony Leiserowitz, who directs the [...]