With the Copenhagen Accord setting a January 31 deadline for the nations to specify 2020 emission targets and other steps, India will hold discussion with other Basic group members comprising China, South Africa and Brazil in New Delhi to discuss their climate strategy.
This paper presents a report from a project on “Developing community-based climate smart agriculture through participatory action research in CCAFS benchmark sites in West Africa” which is a joint initiative
This report covers initiatives for: integrating climate change considerations into development plans, strategies and programmes at national and regional levels; assessing the economic impacts of climate change, evaluating the costs of mitigation and adaptation, and exploring options for climate change financing; enhancing countries
This review has been undertaken in the context of preparation of a concept note for the Kenya dairy NAMA. Biogas promotion is one of the project components. Mitigation actions should aim to achieve greater,
The objectives of the case studies are to determine the potential of indigenous knowledge in strategically contributing to mitigation and adaptation to climate change. The case studies assess the indigenous knowledge practiced and applied by local communities in East, West and Southern Africa regions and
This report explores evidence and insights from five case studies that have made significant recent progress in addressing the challenge of insuring poor smallholder farmers and pastoralists in the developing
Close to $6 billion has been pledged to conservation initiatives in ten key forest countries in Latin America, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region under REDD+, and that money is being deployed in nations
Ethiopia’s carbon emission hits 150 metric tons as the country targets to reduce its greenhouse gas emission to 145 metric tons by 2030, a top government official said on Saturday.According to the Ministry
Rich nations should make the deepest emission cuts and provide most money if countries are to share fairly the responsibility of preventing catastrophic climate change, says a major new study. Calculations
<p>Trillions of dollars are wasted on subsidies for agriculture, fishing and fossil fuels that could be used to help address climate change instead of harming people and the planet, according to this report by the World Bank.</p>
Rio De Janeiro: The earth’s environmental systems “are being pushed towards their biophysical limits” beyond which loom sudden, irreversible and potentially catastrophic changes, the United Nations Environment
A day after a UN report flagged the inadequacy of countries' climate action plans to check global warming, four big developing countries - India, China, Brazil and South Africa - on Saturday urged the
Rapid urbanisation will have huge economic, social and environmental implications. This paper summarise the urbanisation dynamics of sub-Saharan Africa's largest cities using new data on population,GDP
Past and present levels of greenhouse gas emissions have locked unavoidable climate change effects into the climate system for decades to come. Countries with climate vulnerable and poor people need to
Although the spread of drug resistance and the influence of climate change on malaria are most often considered separately, these factors have the potential to interact through altered levels of transmission intensity.
Even though countries are burning unprecedented amounts of oil and gas, the estimates of how much is left continue to grow, thanks to high prices and new technologies that have enabled companies to find
The Lancet Countdown tracks progress on health and climate change and provides an independent assessment of the health effects of climate change, the implementation of the Paris Agreement,1 and the health
Rejecting recent attempts to link trade to climate change, the government said that countries like India would not accept any move by industrialised countries to use climate change to restrict trade. Prime Minister's special envoy Shyam Saran said that India rejected all attempts to push developing countries to cut their emissions by linking it with trade. ''Countries like India are saying sorry it's not a trade issue.
This climate risk profile is intended to serve as a public good to facilitate upstream country diagnostics, policy dialogue, and strategic planning by providing comprehensive overviews of trends and projected
This presentation by South Africa at the Major Economies Forum held in Washington in March 2009 focuses on national actions of countries and how they can address long-term objectives to combat climate change. <br>
