A study led by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) and published in the journal Nature Climate Change last month explored whether or not gender quotas for local governing
Children in rural farming households across the developing countries are often vulnerable to a multitude of risks, including health risks associated with climate change and variability. This study empirically
Climate change could mean unusually high temperatures occurring much more often in most parts of the world by the end of the century, according to a special report on extreme weather events from the Intergovernmental
Global warming accelerated since the 1970s and broke more countries’ temperature records than ever before in the first decade of the new millennium, UN climate experts said Wednesday. A new analysis from
India made it clear on Monday that it wants contentious issues, including access to intellectual property rights (IPRs), to be a part of the upcoming climate change talks at Durban in South Africa.
Negotiations in Durban over greenhouse-gas emissions should not try to revive Kyoto. (Editorial)
Some 153 million people, representing about 26 percent of the population above 15 years of age in sub-Saharan Africa, suffered from severe food insecurity in 2014-15, according to a new FAO report. The
A powerful group of nations working on climate change has agreed with India's stand against the US and some developed countries' move to push for the phasing out of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). In its
<p>Freshwater availability is changing worldwide. Here we quantify 34 trends in terrestrial water storage observed by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites during 2002–2016
<p>Surveys and interviews were used to understand community resilience in forest-dependent communities facing climate change in Cameroon. Surveys of 232 individuals showed a diversity of formal and informal
After El Niño, rainfall recovers in most of Southern Africa. The current rainfall season has seen normal to above normal rainfall for the southern half of continental Southern African Development Community
This new report by WFP details impact of climate change on hunger in developing countries. Predicts that by 2050 the number of people at risk of hunger as a result of climate change is expected to increase by 10 to 20 percent more than would be expected without climate change.
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI), headquartered in Pelawatte, Battaramulla, has been named the Stockholm Water Prize Laureate for 2012. Awarded by the Stockholm International Water
The urgent need to reconfigure and transform urban areas to consume fewer resources, emit less pollution, minimize greenhouse gas production, protect natural ecosystems and increase the adaptive capacity
With more than half of the world
The European Union's environment chief challenged developing countries yesterday to agree at the Copenhagen climate summit in December to rein in their emissions growth in return for greater financial aid.
This document contains the Proceedings of the African Economic Conference 2015. Jointly organized by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the
The eighth ministerial of the World Trade Organisation was on the surface an inconsequential meeting of an organisation fighting a descent into irrelevance. But there were attempts by the powerful economies
Mean global warming of 2 degrees, the target set by the international community, is projected to expose an additional 8 percent of humankind to new or increased water scarcity says this new study published by scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in the journal "Environmental Research Letters".
As governments dither over how to protect the world's poor from the effects of a warming planet, an unlikely group is stepping up.
