Nepal has made significant efforts towards low-emission development, using government tools to encourage finance flows towards climate action. However, achieving its ambitions will be difficult given current
THE European branch of world's largest car maker, Toyota became the first four wheeler manufacturer to join the Climate Neutral Network (CN Net), a UN initiative bringing together organisations pledging to reduce carbon emissions on Tuesday. Toyota Motor Europe is one of the six companies to join CN Net on Tuesday, a web-based network which impresses upon governments, local authorities, private companies and individuals to make large carbon cuts.
Subir Roy / New Delhi August 20, 2008, 5:50 IST
The speed of the plant movement is alarming. The plant death is striking, and occurred in most species. The latest finding provide a glimpse of what could happen to the world's vegetation as the Earth faces inevitable global warming and results appear in journal Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, August 19, 2008,vol.105,no. 33,11823
Shillong: With climate changes being felt in the 'Scotland of the East' and the world in general, the urgency to sensitise people, particularly the students, about global warming and adopt measures to address climate change was emphasised by many conscientious citizens. A step towards this goal was the screening of a documentary -- An Inconvenient Truth -- which was initiated by former US Vice-President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore, which speaks about the threats of global warming to mankind and the earth, at the Soso Tham Auditorium here.
Energy is the ultimate essence of life itself. Unfortunately, due to increased demand, it is slowly becoming very limited in supply, which is probably one of the evils of modern technology. This, combined with the impact of global warming has necessitated the need for energy conservation and use of renewable energy sources.
To understand what has happened to the earth's atmosphere--and, therefore, how our climate might change in the future--some ice-core scientists in the Arctic are training their eyes directly downward. It's an incredibly important job. It's also, as the participants in the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) project will attest, incredibly fun.
Experts, academics and development activists have called upon the government to revise its climate change strategy, which will be presented at the UK-Bangladesh conference on climate change, after consulting experts and stakeholders. The strategy is not comprehensive and lacks a long-term vision, they pointed out at a two-day seminar in Dhaka on
Saying that financing for climate change is a right of the people of an affected country, the speakers at a conference yesterday urged the government to negotiate for compensation to face its possible adverse impact instead of seeking loan or grant. The two-day conference titled 'Financing for climate change: Challenges and way forward 2008' was organised jointly by Unnayan Onneshan and Oxfam Bangladesh at the LGED auditorium in the city. The speakers said Bangladesh is only getting lots of assurances but not enough fund.
The most recent climate modeling predicts higher sea levels for the New Jersey coast. Tourism, transportation, real estate and human health are likely to be affected in various ways and could see losses in the billions of dollars. Changing climate is expected to increase the economic impacts on New Jersey and the nation. These changes will be more pronounced if global greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced.
By Alister Doyle OSLO,Aug. 17: An economic slowdown is sapping enthusiasm for a costly drive to fight climate change but persistently high oil prices are a lifeline for a "green revolution" of renewable energy technology, experts say. UN talks on a new climate treaty to be agreed in Copenhagen at the end of 2009 resume in Ghana from August 21 to 27
