The report presents a mixed picture. Over the past 25 years, there have been notable improvements in child well-being in the group of countries examined in this report: steady decline in child mortality, overall reduction in adolescent suicide and increase in school completion rates. But the last five years have …
RASHME SEHGAL NEW DELHI With less than 11 weeks to go for the start of the crucial Cancun climate meet, Zimbabwean diplomat Margaret Mukahanana-Sangarwe, who is chairperson of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Co-operative Action (Awg-Lca), UNFCC, made a spirited bid to ease disconcertations of the G 77 …
Mministers and other top officials made progress on establishing the details of how hundreds of billions of dollars in climate aid will be raised and distributed. The informal meeting in Geneva, co-hosted by Switzerland and Mexico, aimed to clarify the status of the billions of dollars pledged by developed countries …
Mexico is working overtime to save the upcoming UN Climate Change Summit in Cancun from collapse. Patricia Espinosa, minister of foreign affairs of Mexico and the chairperson of the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP 16) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in her recent visit to India …
Climate change is expected to cause mass human migration, including immigration across international borders. This study quantitatively examines the linkages among variations in climate, agricultural yields, and people's migration responses by using an instrumental variables approach. Our method allows us to identify the relationship between crop yields and migration without …
NOTHING characterized the stalemate at Bonn climate talks more than the candid admission by incoming executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Christiana Figueres of Costa Rica, in an informal chat with media, said she did not think a complete climate deal could be reached in her …
Nov Summit Will Hammer Out Contours Of A Deal On Green Tech Transfer New Delhi: India will host a two-day ministerial round on climate technology transfer and cooperation in November before the year
A NEW line of division has appeared in the climate change negotiations, this time on the issue of a temperature threshold of 1.5 degrees Centrigrade. Small island states were pushing for a technical paper by the UNFCCC secretariat to study the impact of a 1.5 degrees temperature threshold. The effort …
While developing country parties are worried with the disbursement of fast-track climate fund committed by developed countries in Copenhagen, a new institutional arrangement for financing came into focus in the ongoing climate change meeting here in Bonn today. Delegates of the country parties of the UNFCCC discussed the issue in …
THE concerted attempt over the past few months to lower expectations from the Cancun conference on climate change has not gone down well with Mexico. On Tuesday, Mexico responded by saying that Cancun can deliver results, and that the world community needs to be
The two-day Asia Regional Conference of Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) ended here on Monday adopting a joint declaration to help least developed countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing Countries (SIDS) in Asia to cope with the climate change. Bangladesh, Cambodia and the Maldives signed the joint declaration at a …
Warming is held responsible for a rash of extinctions of global lizard populations. Lizards should be relatively invulnerable to warming: They are very good at evading thermal stress, tolerate high body temperatures, and resist water loss. Nevertheless, on page 894 of this issue, Sinervo et al. (1) document extinctions of …
New Delhi: India has made one of the strongest and most elaborate formal submissions in recent times for the climate change negotiations, hardening its stance ahead of a hectic six months of talks leading to the key meeting in Mexico in November. Taking a position strongly contrasting with that of …
Many international statements have urged researchers, policy-makers and health care providers to collaborate in efforts to bridge the gaps between research, policy and practice in low- and middle-income countries. We surveyed researchers in 10 countries about their involvement in such efforts. The authors surveyed 308 researchers who conducted research on …
Gaps continue to exist between research-based evidence and clinical practice. We surveyed health care pro viders in 10 low- and middle-income countries about their use of research-based evidence and examined factors that may facilitate or impede such use. The authors surveyed 1499 health care providers practising in one of four …
