Syed iqbal Hasnain: The world seems to have taken a step backward in combating climate change in the past year, even though more signs of warming are evident across the globe. In the roughly 12 months between the two United Nations climate change conferences, the Copenhagen summit in December 2009 and Cancun 2010, regrettably the

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IUCN: A presentation on, “Climate Change; Moving from Problems to solutions” was organized by International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) under Balochistan Partnership for Sustainable Development program in collaboration with Society for community support & Primary Education in Balochistan (SCSPEB) Office, Quetta  on July 27, 2011. The objective of presentation was to sensitize the

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HimalayanTimes: There is un-contestable 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 that the

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GeospatialWorld: “Climate change is a priority research area for the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) and India is on a mission mode to develop innovative solutions indigenously,” said Vilasrao Deshmukh, Union Minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences. In this direction, the minister declared that MoES is setting up the National Monsoon Mission which

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The purpose of LCES-2011 is to provide a world-class meeting place for information exchanges and trade fairs to promote low carbon economy. The World Expo Center will differentiate itself from other conferences by covering more comprehensive issues from both public and private sectors regarding the anticipated climate change. We also hope such an initiative can

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Deccan Herald: At a time when the anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are fast approaching in early August, it is right that questions be asked of the nuclear industry. Happenings in Japan have led many to contemplate if we as a species should continue with our nuclear experimentations, notes Colin Todhunter

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Business Standard: In the public mind, there has always been a trade-off between economic growth and environmental sustainability. But, this view is changing slowly as more and more people are reviewing their notions of what constitutes growth. In fact, the very definition of growth has been enlarged to accommodate environmental and related concerns. There is

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DNA: Government decisions are often described as absurd, but few are considered random. Most decisions, especially those involving change of responsibility or designation, are carefully calculated. So, when a ministerial portfolio, for instance, is taken away, the question is worth asking — Why? Writing for Al-Jazeera, eco-activist Vandana Shiva had raised questions about the propriety

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Time Science: Climate change advocates haven’t had much to celebrate recently, but New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s announcement last week that he was giving $50 million to the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign marked a real win. The Sierra Club — the nation’s largest environmental group — has successfully stopped more than 150 proposed

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China Daily: China has established guidlines for 10 work focuses on energy saving and emission reduction for the 12th Five-Yeas Plan (2011-2015) period, China Securities Journal reported on Tuesday. These work focuses include strengthening energy saving and emission reduction, reducing carbon intensity and so on, by means of promoting stepped-pricing for household water and electricity

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Kuensel Online: Farming has been identified as the highest GHG emitter. Lush green paddy or maize fields on which most Bhutanese depend for livelihood may be a carbon sink, but its contribution to the greenhouse gas emission could far outstrip other sectors. A study, which is being undertaken by the national environment commission (Bhutan), states

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Alertnet: Pakistan is planning to boost exploitation of alternative and renewable energy sources in an attempt to tackle a chronic power shortage and address the challenges of climate change. A new long-term energy policy aims to provide at least five percent of the country’s total commercial energy supplies from clean renewable sources such as wind,

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Alertnet: Bangladesh is getting involved in carbon credit trading with the certification of a recycling plant that converts organic waste into compost. “We collect some 100 tonnes of vegetable waste from two city markets daily and recycle it in our plant in the city’s suburbs through composting. If that waste had been dumped in the

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GIZ NEWS: Climate change is not gender neutral: gender roles determine who does what, when and where, which results in distinct vulnerabilities for women and men. Despite evidence of gender-differentiated impacts, few gendered approaches to adaptation exist. A good example comes from Bolivia. The Proagro programme in Bolivia partnered with the Climate Protection Programme to

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Small integrated farms with off-grid renewable energy may be the perfect solution to the food and financial crisis while mitigating and adapting to climate change An emerging scientific consensus that a shift to small scale sustainable agriculture and localized food systems will address most, if not all the underlying causes of deteriorating agricultural productivity as

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