This brief examines solutions on the Adaptation at Altitude Solutions Portal that have been implemented either across borders or in multiple countries with shared borders. These transboundary solutions
International climate negotiators muddled through the latest round of global-warming talks in Bonn, Germany, last week, overshadowed by independent bilateral negotiations in Beijing between the United States and China. Neither meeting produced any significant breakthroughs, and new disagreements seem to have outnumbered resolutions by a wide margin.
Buenos Aires (Argentina): Argentina
Emerging Economies Demand Rich Countries Cut Emissions By 40% Nitin Sethi | TNN New Delhi: India has extracted a small victory in one battle of the long-running climate war with key emerging economies forging an alliance that has formally demanded that industrialized nations take at least a 40% cut in their emissions below 1990 standards in the next 11 years, by 2020.
Lawmakers at a dialogue yesterday said an international research centre on climate change could be set up in the country to monitor and forecast the impacts of global climate change. The utilisation of climate change funds should be monitored from time to time and the funds be released in the first quarter of the fiscal year (FY) instead of the third quarter, they said.
KOLKATA 16 June: Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi today said the Union government was contemplating an action plan to address the issues of climate change and global warming.
The UK government has pledged to commit around $150 million to the Multi-Donor Trust Fund to be formed by Bangladesh to cope with the climate change. Speaking in parliament, State Minister for Environment and Forest Mostafizur Rahman said formation of the fund is now at the final stage with donor agencies and countries promising the government necessary financial assistance.
US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry has warned that climate changes in South Asia could further deteriorate relations between the region
Mumbai: Climate change is a global issue affecting every living being and is a direct result of over exploitation of natural resources. While environmentalists and governments are busy pretending to be worried about the drastic change in climate pattern, they conveniently forget basics such as to conserve soil moisture and green cover, opined Ramon Magsaysay Award recipient Dr Rajendra Singh.
Asia's rapid economic growth in recent years has contributed significantly to climate change and environmental pollution, the head of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) warned on Tuesday. In response to this, "it is imperative that we escalate our efforts to put the region on a path of low-carbon growth," bank president Haruhiko Kuroda told an ADB forum on climate change.
Towering Mountain Ash forests covering Victoria state's cool highlands hold four times more carbon, or around 1,900 metric tons of carbon per hectare, than tropical forests, scientists at the Australian National University said.
