Business Bhutan: Challenged by harsh realities of climate change, the South American country is willing to do everything it takes to ensure that mountains are recognized as an important aspect of sustainable development. The western South American country of Peru has advised its official negotiators to take an uncompromising stand on mountain issues when deliberations

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Eureka Alert: Global Adaptation Index (TM) (GaIn) (Readiness – Vulnerability) The GAIN Index serves as an overall measure of a country’s vulnerability to climate-related hazards and its readiness to adapt to the challenges posed by climate change and other global forces. It is calculated as the readiness score of a country minus its vulnerability score,

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UNSE: Ms. Ruchi Pant of UNDP New Delhi India floated a query at UN Solution Exchange India’s Climate Change community to get the responses for National Biodiversity Authority of India NBA. The background note with her questions and summary of responses have been given in the following section. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is

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World Bank: In February 2000, intense flooding left hundreds of thousands of people homeless in the African nation of Mozambique. The cause: a tropical cyclone and heavy rainfall which many experts attributed to the effects of climate change. More than a decade later, February 2012 turned out to be a turbulent month for the island

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IISD: The second meeting of the Open-ended Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol (ICNP) on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization (ABS) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) begins today in New Delhi, India. It was preceded by a capacity-building workshop on

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Springerlink: Communication researchers and practitioners have suggested that framing climate change in terms of public health and/or national security may make climate change more personally relevant and emotionally engaging to segments of the public who are currently disengaged or even dismissive of the issue. To evaluate these assumptions, using a nationally representative online survey of

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