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At their annual summit last week, leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations pledged to try to keep the planet from warming by more than 2
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Decoupling natural resource use and environmental impacts from economic growth
<p>By 2050, humanity could devour an estimated 140 billion tons of minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass per year – three times its current appetite – unless the economic growth rate is “decoupled” from the rate of natural resource consumption, warns a report from the United Nations Environment Programme.
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Seeing through the farmers’ eyes: an exploration of the life of smallholder farmers in Northern Uganda
All too often, the well-intentioned efforts of journalists and development organizations to raise awareness of pressing humanitarian issues has the unintended effect of reducing its human subjects to little
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China’s climate change rubs off on India
New Delhi India has said it is open to negotiate on mitigation issues at the Durban climate talks but said developed countries have to show clear commitment to reduce their carbon footprints. The Indian
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PM for greater cooperation between Asia, Africa on climate
Noting that economies of developing countries are impacted by climate change, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday pitched for greater cooperation between Asian and African countries to address short and long term challenges in this regard. “I believe that in the future we will need to tackle the short term and long term environmental challenges that our economies face,” Dr. Singh said while addressing the inaugural function of Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Afro-Asian Rural Development Organisation in New Delhi.
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African farmers must do more to beat climate change: study
African farmers are finding new ways to cope with droughts, erosion and other ravages of climate change but need to develop even more techniques to thrive in an increasingly uncertain environment, scientists
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Copenhagen Cop-out, Kyoto Lives
As bw goes to press, the last day of the copenhagen climate summit still has some way to go. However, there is little hope for a treaty. Even the gathering of about 110 heads of government is not expected to break up the scrum in which their climate negotiators have been locked for 10 days.
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Participant perceptions of risk and benefit in carbon forestry: Evidence From Central Tanzania
This article addresses forestry projects attempting to register with the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).
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State of the World’s Plants 2017
<p>The spread of pests and pathogens that damage plant life could cost global agriculture $540 billion a year, according to this report released by the Royal Botanic Gardens in London. An increase in international trade and travel had left flora facing rising threats from invasive pests and pathogens, and called for greater biosecurity measures.</p>
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Global water security and sanitation partnership annual report 2021
The Global Water Security & Sanitation Partnership (GWSP) was launched in 2017 as an international partnership to support countries to meet the targets related to water and sanitation under the Sustainable
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The Big Fight
Who stands where on the climate front UNITED STATES Rejected (and has singlehandedly sunk) the Kyoto Protocol. Wants India and China also to commit to emission cuts. Will have an emission cap-and-trade# regime. Plans to impose trade barriers against countries without a cap-and-trade system. Willing to cut emission by only 17 per cent by 2020 from 2005 level.
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Equal to the task: financing for a state of emergency in Nigeria’s water, sanitation and hygiene sector
In a new report "Equal to the task: financing for a state of emergency in water supply, sanitation and hygiene" consider the financing challenges facing Nigeria’s WASH sector. Based on research and analysis
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Identifying potential synergies and trade-offs for meeting food security and climate change objectives in sub-Saharan Africa
Potential interactions between food production and climate mitigation are explored for two situations in sub-Saharan Africa, where deforestation and land degradation overlap with hunger and poverty.
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Kolkata ranks 7th in global climate change risk list
Bangladeshi capital Dhaka has topped a global list of cities facing the highest climate change risks in the coming decades, while Indian metropolis Kolkata is ranked seventh, Mumbai eighth and Delhi at
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Multifunctional land uses in Africa: sustainable food security solutions
This book presents contemporary case studies of land use, management practices, and innovation in Africa with a view to exploring how multifunctional land uses can alleviate food insecurity and poverty.Food
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Green Climate Fund to discuss $100bn pledged by rich countries
The fate of billions of dollars of promised funding from rich countries to help the developing world adapt to climate change will be discussed on Thursday in Geneva, at the first meeting of the UN's Green
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Climate change may bring big ecosystem shifts
By 2100, global climate change will modify plant communities covering almost half of Earth's land surface and will drive the conversion of nearly 40 percent of land-based ecosystems from one major ecological
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Air quality in African cities
This report contains a comparative analysis of five African cities in terms of their air pollution problem, as well as their attempts to manage and improve air quality. Also included is an analysis of
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Hunger and climate change
There are more than one billion hungry people in the world
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"Plenty Of Opportunities" From Arctic Thaw - Norway
A thaw of Arctic ice will open "plenty of opportunities" in oil and gas exploration and shipping even though the overall impact of global warming will be damaging for the region, Norway's Foreign Minister said.