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
Ice crystals plucked from clouds and quickly analysed in flight show bits of biological material -- bacteria, spores and plants -- play a role in the formation of clouds, US researchers said on Sunday. The finding, reported in the journal Nature Geoscience, offers the first direct evidence of airborne bacteria in clouds, they said.
The United Nations took a step towards a new climate treaty on Friday by publishing the first draft negotiating texts to help bridge a "great gulf" between options for rich nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Fifteen percent of emissions permits would be sold to polluters each year under a climate change bill moving through the US House of Representatives, according to a document circulated on Friday describing the legislation.
Oil refiners would be given 2 percent of greenhouse gas emission permits under a proposed climate change bill that Democrats in the US House of Representatives are writing, according to a document describing that legislation.
The financial crisis has made it harder for the EU to agree on an internal target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions as part of a global climate change deal, Sweden's environment minister said on Friday.
China might extend through 2020 its goal of improving energy efficiency, the official China Daily reported on Friday, citing sources involved in a government discussion. The government failed to meet its yearly reduction target of 4 percent in 2006 but has retained an overall 20 percent reduction goal for the five-year period ending in 2010.
More than 17 million people in Bangladesh would be displaced by a sea level rise of 1.5 metres, warned Jonathan Bamber, a professor at Bristol University in England, disclosing a study report which found that a collapse of the ice sheet of West Antarctica would push up world sea levels by 3.3 metres (11 ft) over hundreds of years.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has approved Rs 10 million for the provision of basic energy services through solar energy to the remote villages of Deh Tiko Baran in Jamshoro district. The PM issued the directive based on the recommendations of Federal Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervaiz Ashraf. The funding would be provided out of the People
The world's poorest nations are not prepared for the strain climate change will put on their public health systems, according to studies by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and partners.
The only thing the world is running out of is space to plant a colossal amount of imaginary forest to avoid carbon dioxide emissions. We can prevent the latter through much smarter and cheaper means, says Bj
