IBTimes: A senior United Nations official warned that climate change could become a catalyst for “sudden and abrupt” shocks worldwide and have “far-reaching implications for global stability and security.” Achim Steiner, executive director of the U.N. Environmental Program, told the U.N. Security Council Wednesday that natural resources are at risk. “There can be little doubt

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Alertnet: At the intersection of two of the world’s most vulnerable groups – children and women – adolescent girls may end up bearing the biggest burden of climate change impacts, according to a new report. In times of economic hardship – often caused by droughts, floods or other natural disasters – girls regularly suffer from a

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TimesofIndia: Environment and forests minister Jayanthi Natarajan reaffirmed India’s commitment towards ensuring a second phase of Kyoto Protocol in a meeting with the US delegation led by US special envoy Todd Stern on Tuesday. The seven-member US climate team is accompanying secretary of state Hillary Clinton. They held a technical and negotiating-level dialogue with the

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AsianAge: Receding Himalayan glaciers are resulting in the formation of glacial lakes which climatolgists warn are growing at an alarming pace. The Himalayas have 55,000 glaciers but the creation of these lakes could destroy the settlements located close to them. Prof. G.M. Bhat of the department of geology in Jammu University warned that the increasing

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Scientific and technical presentations for the World Solid Waste Congress 2012 Academics, operators, public officials and operators in the waste industry are invited to submit a one page abstract in English before October 30th 2011, to participate in the World Solid Waste Congress. The proceedings as well as the template for submission are available on

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Reuters: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pushed one of her simplest but potentially most transformative diplomatic priorities in India on Wednesday: clean cooking stoves. Clinton, who last year launched a $50 million U.S. drive to bring clean cooking stoves to developing countries to cut deaths from smoke inhalation and fight climate change, visited an Indian

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IBN Live: The UN Security Council today failed to agree that climate change is a threat to international peace and security, even as India objected to the issue being discussed in this forum. The United States described this failure as “pathetic”. But India, China and Russia objected to the matter being discussed in the Security

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NewsTrackIndia: The Himalayan region is a treasure-trove of bio-diversity, of abundant natural resources and a people who live their lives in tune with nature. This amazing landscape and environment which in a sense defines India, which has down the ages provided protection as a natural border as well as harmony in nature. Today it needs

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Himalayan Times: There is uncontestable evidence that human induced climate change is inevitably leading the world to ecological disaster with grave human implications. With steady but sure irreversible impacts on human life and livelihood, the disaster is particularly threatening the most vulnerable developing countries of the world. The question often raised is about the role

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Times of Zambia: The Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) has implored youths in Zambia to be proactive in climate change related matters as they are not spared from its devastating short and long term effects. CCZ head of programmes Abraham Chikasa said during a Youth Climate Caravan Concept Presentation in Lusaka that for a

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MSNBC Future Technologies: Using wood for construction has a lower carbon footprint than steel and concrete In a twist, a new study suggests that regularly logging forests can quadruple the amount of carbon dioxide soaked up from the atmosphere. The trick is to use the harvested wood in place of steel and concrete during the

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The NEWS Pakistan: “I don’t think it is tough to solve the issues of trans-boundary waters between India and Pakistan” said Jordon based Yana Walid Abu-Talib from Eco-peace/Friends of the Earth Middle East. She was in Lahore last week to attend a two day conference on ‘Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management-Managing Risks: Sharing Benefits’

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The Conversation: Climate science has now thoroughly outlined the risk associated with increasing greenhouse gases. Significant and rapid warming of the climate system is now expected to occur over the next century and beyond. A popular argument against the enhanced greenhouse effect, or a human influence on climate, has emerged: “We don’t doubt that climate

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TheAustralian: India Environmentalists have challenged the Australian government to prove its commitment to combat climate change by lobbying to end millions of dollars in subsidies for so-called “efficient” coal-fired power stations in developing nations. The UN last week ruled that a proposed 4000MW coal-fired power station in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh was

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The Hindu: In the run-up to the U.N. climate change summit to be held at Durban this December, India is once again emphasising the importance of the Kyoto Protocol. The future of the protocol, which has clear emission reduction targets for developed countries, is uncertain. Canada, Japan and Russia have refused to commit to the

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PIB: Minister Smt. Jayanthi Natarajan, Minister of state for Environment and Forests (Independent Charge) said that it is important to remain engaged on issues such as equity, accelerated transfer of technologies and trade measures at and beyond Durban and the crucial role of Indo-US programmes regarding science of climate change to further strengthen the bilateral

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Preventionweb: In advance of the tenth anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit (Rio+20), UNESCO is launching a Teacher Education Course on Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development (CCESD) in late 2011. EduInfo spoke to Professor David Selby and Dr Fumiyo Kagawa of Sustainability Frontiers, an international alliance of sustainability and global educators, who have developed

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RightsideNews: Philosophical Basis for Challenging the IPCC: In an interesting opinion piece in The New York Times entitled “On Experts and Global Warming,” Gary Gutting, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, argues that the non-experts must accept the findings of the expert authorities in climate science. Though not named, no doubt the

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The Scientist: A climate change writer is concerned over possible bias within an IPCC working group that assesses options for combating climate change. In June, a working group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a report that reviewed options for mitigating climate change that limit greenhouse gas emissions—such as renewable energy technology—and

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AFP: The key facts on global warming are already known and leaders should not wait for the next edition of the UN climate panel’s report to step up action, the body’s top scientist told AFP. The 4th Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released in 2007, “is very clear,” Rajendra Pachauri said Monday in

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