Suman K A: The National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change (NMSKCC) seeks to build a dynamic knowledge system that would inform and support national policy and action in addressing the climate change challenges while not compromising on the nation’s growth goals. This, it seeks to achieve through a combination of knowledge infrastructure, institutional

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ICIMOD: At a technical and professional gathering in Kathmandu this week, 150 policy makers,  scientists,  and development experts from the world’s mountain regions drafted the Kathmandu Declaration on Green Economy and Sustainable Mountain Development, hoping  to ensure the place of mountain systems, in particular in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region, in current global discussions on the environment,

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DAWN: Atmospheric scientists on Friday blamed climate change for the unprecedented torrential monsoon rains in Sindh that have caused severe flooding in the 16 districts of Sindh province. “If we look at the frequency and the trend of the extreme weather events impacting Pakistan then it is easy to find its linkage with climate change,”

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The Hindu: A group of young urban professionals embark on a year-long discovery of rural India, to share and receive valuable insights.  “Give us the job and we will do it.” This comment from one of the 28 young professionals taking part in a State Bank of India Youth for India (SBIYFI) fellowship programme captures

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MyRepublica: Nepal´s attempt to reduce 50,000 ton of carbon is likely to get certified by Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) executive board on September 23 that will pay off around US $ 350,000. The CDM is a provision of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), a mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol, that allows rich

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Chinadilogue: Water has always been a flash point between India and Pakistan. The two neighbours compete over use of the waters of the Indus River, the backbone of agriculture and industry in both states. As the Indian subcontinent was partied in 1947 to create the new state of Pakistan, the rivers were partitioned in 1960

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Himalayas have been soul of the country by virtue of cultural, ethnic, ecological and economical values. It has not been guarding country’s border only but constantly serving its human by enriching soil, air, water etc. Unfortunately importance of Himalayas was always underestimated for its integral role in overall development of the Nation. Deterioration of Himalayan

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