Emerging leaders: How the developing world is starting a new era of climate change leadership
This paper focuses on five of the most dynamic emerging economies
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Differential climate impacts for policy-relevant limits to global warming: the case of 1.5 ◦C and 2 ◦C
<p>Robust appraisals of climate impacts at different levels of global-mean temperature increase are vital to guide assessments of dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. The 2015
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Durban Declaration: 2050 vision for forests and forestry
<p>Forests are critical to achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) says the Durban declaration adopted at the World Forestry Congress. It calls for the forests of the future to be "fundamental" for food security and improved livelihoods.</p>
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Climate change hurts Africa most, scientists say
Africa contributes least to global climate change, but is bearing the brunt of the phenomenon that is expected to exacerbate food shortages in the long term, scientists warned. Global warming has
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A pocket guide to sustainable development governance
<p>Stakeholder Forum together with the Commonwealth Secretariat have produced a new book as part of of the sdg2012 programme entitled: "A Pocket Guide to Sustainable Development Governance". The guide was initiated by Stakeholder Forum and the Commonwealth Secretariat in response to the perceived ‘knowledge gap’ on the history and dynamics of global governance for susta
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Coastal zones and climate change
This book examines the emerging environmental stresses on coastal areas of the Indian Ocean and the resulting challenges confronting coastal planners and decision makers in a warming world.
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Shelter from the storm? household-level impacts of, and responses to, the 2015 floods in Malawi
As extreme weather events intensify due to climate change, it becomes ever more critical to understand how vulnerable households are to these events and the mechanisms households can rely on to minimize
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EU Sets Conditions For Signing Up To Kyoto II
European Union environment ministers -- responsible for only 11 percent of global carbon emissions -- said they would commit to a new phase of the Kyoto climate change pact, on the condition that nations
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No going back
With nations doing little to slow climate change, many people are ramping up plans to adapt to the inevitable.
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Deforestation 'may have started west Africa's Ebola outbreak'
Environment ministers from all over the world attend one-day conference on deforestation and climate change in London Deforestation may have triggered the recent Ebola outbreak in west Africa, France’s
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Global trends: forced displacement in 2022
<p>The number of people displaced worldwide has reached a record 110 million, with the wars in Ukraine and Sudan forcing millions from their homes, according to this annual Global Trends report by the UNHCR.</p>
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Africa on front line of climate change'
Attempts to alleviate poverty in Africa will fail unless urgent action is taken to stall dangerous climate change, the Group of Eight nations will be told. A report, entitled Africa: Up in smoke?
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Joint Statement on 18th BASIC Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change
The 18th BASIC Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change was held in New Delhi, India on 7-8 August 2014. The meeting was attended by H.E Mr. Prakash Javadekar, Minister of State (IC) of Environment, Forests
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On thin ice: how cutting pollution can slow warming and save lives
This new scientific report released by World Bank shows that moving rapidly to reduce pollutants such as methane and black carbon, could slow warming in critical snow and ice-covered regions while benefitting human welfare.
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UNICEF: Poorest children hit by climate change
The world's poorest and most vulnerable children are being hit hardest by the impact of climate change, according to a new report from UNICEF UK. Published exactly 10 years after the UK signed the Kyoto Protocol, Our Climate, Our Children, Our Responsibility called for immediate action from Government to make children a priority in the climate change agenda. It described how children, especially in Africa and Asia, face increased violence and disease, and scarcer food and clean water, causing up to an extra 160,000 deaths a year.
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U.N. to rule on carbon offsets from coal plants
The main U.N.-appointed panel that regulates supply of global carbon offsets could this week decide whether to approve rules that would lead to the award of millions of CO2 credits to coal-fired power
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Barcelona talks resume as African nations end boycott
AFTER a 24-hour boycott by African delegates, talks resumed in Barcelona on Wednesday. And developing countries kept up the pressure, demanding that the developed countries should cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% below 1990 levels by 2020. This is far more than what is on offer. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
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Suitability of project M&E systems to support agricultural MRV: the case of the Kenya dairy NAMA
Several countries are developing nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) in the livestock sector. Compared to research on emission factors, much less attention has been paid to understanding
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Africa leads charge on climate change
New Delhi: The recalcitrant group of industrialised countries came under fire on the first day of Barcelona climate talks with African countries, in an unprecedented move, blocking all negotiations on Kyoto Protocol unless the rich nations provided concrete and unconditional targets for greenhouse gas emissions for the mid-term.
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BASIC seeks equal treatment to pre-2020 issues at COP23; High-level segment to begin tomorrow
BONN (Germany): Taking forward the concerns of developing countries, the BASIC nations - Brazil, South Africa, India and China - have resolved to take up all the critical issues, including access to finance