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
Sub-Surface Flow Controls Movement Of Glaciers Washington: Massive floods deep below Antarctica
London-based alternative investment manager Climate Change Capital plans to invest 5 billion yuan (US$732 million) in environmental projects in China including industrial waste management and clean technology over the next two to three years.
Economic revival in the former Soviet bloc has been the main driver in pushing up industrialised nations' greenhouse gas emissions since 2000, despite plans to cut them, UN data showed on Monday.
We need to move towards a form of sustainable development that is economically sound, socially equitable and environmentally responsible. Solar energy is clearly the way forward, says K Subramanya.
The totality of climate change
ANALYSTS have long maintained that US and China are the two main actors that must come together in order for a global deal in climate change to be reached. With US in recession, and China growing slower than expected, India may arguably emerge as the third required stakeholder in the talks.
The seventh session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC 7) was held in Istanbul, Turkey back to back with the First Special Session of the Committee on Science and Technology (CST), from 3 to 14 November 2008, at the invitation of the Government of Turkey. For detailed day by day output: http://www.iisd.ca/desert/cric7/
TERI director-general and IPCC chairman R.K. Pachauri presents a solar lantern to Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda at the environment educators
The government will provide Tk 500 crore in addition to budgeted Tk 300 crore to mitigate the impacts of climate change, the special assistant to the chief adviser for environment, Raja Debashish Roy, informed a seminar in the city on Sunday. Debashish said a separate cell was being opened in the key ministries to deal with the problems caused by the climate change.
In order to boost production of clean energy source the Central Mine Planning and Design Institute Limited (CMPDIL), a subsidiary of Coal India Limited (CIL), would inaugurate on Monday a clearing house in the city. The new unit would enable those interested in extraction of methane from the coal mines of CIL to bring in technology and funds.
