Guardian: We must draw on our experience of development co-operation to ensure climate change funds are effectively used. Few would dispute the need to mobilise funds to support developing countries in dealing with the effects of climate change. At last year’s UN climate change conference (COP16) in Cancun, Mexico, world leaders agreed to a set

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K N Vajpai: Much has been said about Himalayas and its beautiful mountains, rich biodiversity and rich culture. But, sometime it seems that the inhabitants in the region are not cognizant about this richness. Are they? Let me take one of the factors that contributed to such situation in Hindu Kush Himalayan region and that

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TheNews: Rising inflation, especially of food, which is in double-digit for the last several years, is causing severe food insecurity in Pakistan, as millions of Pakistanis have limited access to food due to its high prices and the United Nations have time and again pinpointed this threat to the county, sources said on Monday. Although

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IHRR Blog: In order to understand the impacts of climate change in the regions of the world that are most vulnerable, why not ask the locals?  One study did just that by interviewing people in village communities in Darjeeling Hills, West Bengal, India about the changes in weather and water availability that they have experienced

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