Don't blame us
<p>For two decades, the club of rich nations has failed to reduce carbon emissions in a meaningful way. It did not grant emerging markets the atmospheric space they need to develop, and has begun to blame
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Durban climate talks open, focus on emissions cuts
Global warming already is causing suffering and conflict in Africa, from drought in Sudan and Somalia to flooding in South Africa, President Jacob Zuma said on Monday, urging delegates at an international
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The Copenhagen climate circus
The real value of the climate process is its impact on the ideas on what it means to be a good global citizen
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China Again Tops for Clean Energy Investment, Study Shows
China, the world’s biggest emitter of carbon pollution, continues to hold the top position as the best developing country in which to invest in clean energy in a study by Climatescope, a research project
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African leaders pledge climate action in Japan deal
African leaders at a development summit with Japan pledged Friday to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as part of the fight against global warming. Global negotiations to draft a new climate treaty covering after 2012, when the Kyoto Protocol? obligations to slash emissions expire, have been bogged down by disputes between wealthy and poor countries.
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Prospects for livestock-based livelihoods in Africa's drylands
Prospects for Livestock-Based Livelihoods in Africa’s Drylands examines the challenges and opportunities facing the livestock sector and the people who depend on livestock in the dryland regions of Sub-Saharan
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Realism in the climate negotiation
What you measure determines policy Another round of the annual climate meetings is going to take place and the most ambitious outcome will be limited negotiations on some elements, because there is as
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Vulnerable countries to speak up with one voice
The climate vulnerable countries like Bangladesh will speak up with one voice for global support for climate change adaptation at the oncoming Durban climate summit this December, two ministers said at
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Social protection programs for Africa's drylands
Social Protection Programs for Africa’s Drylands explores the role of social protection in promoting the well-being and prosperity of people living in dryland regions of Sub-Saharan Africa, with a specific
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Little progress seen at climate talks
The meeting in Bonn saw the start of negotiations on climate change leading up to December's meeting in Copenhagen.
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Springing back: climate resilience at Africa's grassroots
Climate change is often seen as a global problem demanding global solutions. But for poor people hit hard by the impacts, climate change is a not a boardroom abstraction, but day-to-day reality. Faced with local shifts in weather patterns and natural resources, they are forced to find ways of coping that are locally relevant. This kind of experience, gained at the grassroots, boosts resilience as no top-down initiative can. Three case studies from rural communities in Benin, Kenya and Malawi show how it is done.
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Turning up the heat: Climate Change and Poverty in Uganda
Good policies that cannot be implemented will not solve the current problems of climate change whose impacts are expected to hit Africa the most, is affecting 42 billion people worldwide. But Uganda appears to be laying ground work to both mitigate and adapt to the phenomenon.
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Nations warn of broken promises at U.N. climate talks
Almost 50 of the world's poorest nations said pledges made by rich countries to provide funds to help them adapt to a warmer planet risk being overlooked as U.N. negotiations over a global climate pact
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PM Modi to attend climate change conference in Paris
Modi will join US President Barack Obama, Chinese President Xi Jinping, UK Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and leaders of Brazil, S Africa and Canada amongst others. Prime
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UN climate talks move to Qatar in 2012
Qatar, the world’s biggest per capita emitter of carbon dioxide, will host the 2012 round of UN talks tasked with beating back the mounting threat of global warming, the UN’s top climate official said
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India proposes new emission check system
India has suggested a system of
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Late-twentieth-century warming in Lake Tanganyika unprecedented since AD 500
Instrumental observations suggest that Lake Tanganyika, the largest rift lake in East Africa, has become warmer, increasingly stratified and less productive over the past 90 years. These trends have been attributed to anthropogenic climate change.
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Degradation and forgone removals increase the carbon impact of intact forest loss by 626%
<p>Intact tropical forests, free from substantial anthropogenic influence, store and sequester large amounts of atmospheric carbon but are currently neglected in international climate policy. We show that
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Europe, US debt crisis may hit climate fund flows
The Euro zone debt crisis and recessionary fears in the US may prove to be a threat to the global climate change agenda. Experts feel that developed nations may not be able to keep up their commitment
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China all but dashes hope of climate deal
EMMA GRAHAM-HARRISON and LANGI CHIANG BEIJING A senior Chinese climate official said that negotiators aim to seal a binding global pact on warming by the end of 2011, a blow to any lingering hopes the world could reach a deal at talks this year in Mexico