<p>Empowering people, ensuring inclusiveness and equality is fundamental to realizing sustainable development. What change is needed to strengthen empowerment and promote inclusion and equality of all
<p>Very different global rules are needed for human wellbeing</p> <p>Averting climate change does not need emission reduction pledges, timetables and a common legal framework.</p> <p>Climate governance
A Japanese satellite fails in space resulting in the loss of vital climate data
The subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UN FCCC met recently in Bonn, Germany. These were the first formal FCCC meetings since the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol at the Third Conference of Parties COP 3 in De
East–Southeast Asia is currently one of the fastest urbanizing regions in the world, with countries such as China climbing from 20 to 50% urbanized in just a few decades. By 2050, these countries are projected
The Energy Trilemma Index, produced in partnership with global management consultancy Oliver Wyman, along with the Global Risk Centre of its parent Marsh & McLennan Companies, is a comparative ranking
Americans wake up to a vital need of the human body: sleep
This factsheet, from the Raising Risk Awareness initiative, examines the impact of the 2015-16 drought on Ethiopia’s drought management systems. Ethiopia has two major rainy seasons. The belg season runs
a new method that used the Bangladesh monsoon to make a monsoon prediction model could end the woes of millions of farmers. The method was used for the first time to produce forecasts of 20-25 days
A move to limit the use of ozone depleting substances is on the anvil
Deputy Unit Head – Global Climate & Energy Team, Greenpeace International, Amsterdam Closing Date: Thursday, 23 April 2012 Deputy Unit Head – Global Climate & Energy Team Organisation: Greenpeace
Geological records of how climate responded to changes in the atmosphere in the past enables scientists to model future climate behaviour in response to current atmospheric changes
The amoebae s intriguing hunger call has the whole scientific community excited
Coral reefs facing threat from pollution, dredging and blast fishing A swelling population, land use change, unscientific waste disposal, mining of corals, coastal erosion, and unregulated construction are exerting pressure on the Lakshadweep islands, one of the most sensitive and fragile coastal environments in the country.
The biosafety protocol is still a chimera
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BRAZIL recently declared its opposition to a British proposal for a global trust to buy and preserve land in the endangered Amazon rainforests. It has instead asked Al Gore, the former us
Frontal convection (FC) and diurnal convection (DC) are the two most frequently observed weather systems affecting the pre-summer (May and June, MJ) rainfall formation over Taiwan and Southeast China.
<p> </p> <p><em>It's time the green brigade joins the banker-bashing, Occupy Wall Street movement</em></p> <p>Another climate summit and another potential disappointment facing the green brigade.
WAFED is an independent national network of people affected by water and energy projects as well as of local concerned groups in Nepal. Some of its members are individual activists engaged in the field
