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
By 2080, the world s lakes will experience a temperature change of up to 6.7 c caused by greenhouse gas emissions, according to a study by the uk based Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Will this year s climate change conference be different?
The climate regime needs to get out of the rut it is in
Which issues will come to the fore?
AXEL MICHAELOWA Climate policy is a titanic clash of interests. Emitters of greenhouse gases (GHG), both rich and poor, do not want to bear costs of reducing emissions. Consequently,
Top rice grower China could see output of the staple crop plummet because of global warming, a study carried out by British and Chinese scientists said. The research has shown that yields of three
India and Nepal will hold a series of meeting this and the next month to finalise the Detailed Project Report of the Pancheshwar dam on the Mahakali-Sharda river on the border of the two countries.
Climate change may be to blame for some 150000 deaths each year, with tropical places and poor countries being the most vulnerable, the UN health agency said. The increase in deaths estimated by the
The U.N. General Assembly decided this week to put off negotiations for a year on a treaty banning human cloning that the Bush administration wants to extend to research on stem cells. All 191 U.N.
The people of the Brahmaputra basin should be involved in the efforts at managing the mighty river, said the speakers at a lecture session on the river and the conflicts in sharing its water. The
