Forests sustain and protect us in a myriad of ways. They absorb carbon dioxide and provide us with oxygen, they harbour more than three quarters of terrestrial biodiversity, and they support the livelihoods of millions of people worldwide. But the world has lost 420 million hectares of forest since 1990. …
The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Mincetur) organized a workshop on National Biocommerce Strategy until 2021 with the aim of turning Peru into a successful business model of goods and services derived from native biodiversity by the said year. To do so, environmental, social and economic sustainability standards will …
Global demand for gold is putting some of the most remote and pristine tropical forests at risk, scientists warn. Some 1,680 sq km of rainforest in South America was lost to gold mining from 2001 to 2013, a study shows. University of Puerto Rico researchers say gold mining has become …
Falling prices and rising debt are driving some Latin American leaders to relax legislation aimed at protecting the environment A commodity boom has helped pull millions out of poverty across South America over the past decade. It has also unleashed a new scramble for oil, minerals and cropland that is …
DHAKA : Experts at a discussion here on Wednesday said the outcome of the 20th Conference of Parties (COP 20) held recently in Lima, Peru have disappointed Bangladesh and other developing countries as it failed to deal adequately with adaptation, losses and damage caused by climate change, reports UNB. They …
Bangladesh has to play a proactive role to make the global leaders understand the significance of signing a legally binding protocol on climate change in the Paris summit in December 2015, speakers told a discussion on the recently concluded Lima conference yesterday. The inability to sign the protocol would make …
NEW DELHI: 2014 saw India playing a crucial role in protecting the interests of developing nations at the UN climate talks in Lima where negotiators prepared a way for a new ambitious and binding deal to be signed in Paris next year to combat global warming. During the year, the …
Awareness on IPCC findings quite widespread, says Pachauri. While India and other countries have been opposing a review of their national contribution to tackle climate change, Chairperson of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) R.K. Pachauri firmly believes that unless there is a process of review in place, the …
At a time when the developing world is worried over the rich nations’ reluctance to contribute to the Green Climate Fund, the chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, R K Pachauri, remains hopeful the developed world would be more forthcoming once all countries provide their ‘Intended Nationally …
The annual UN climate summit of 194 nations, scheduled to conclude Friday in Peru, finally finished in overtime on Sunday . The modest agreement that was reached keeps the process alive. However, while a deal was concluded, including agreement for the first time that all countries (not just developed states) …
Major questions persist over how rich countries will boost funding for poorer nations to tackle climate change in the next five years, after U.N. climate talks failed to decide on clear plans. Back in 2009, wealthy governments promised to mobilize $100 billion a year by 2020 from public, private and …
A Paris summit in 2015 will face a tougher task to agree a U.N. deal to slow climate change after the hopes of many that cooperation between Washington and Beijing would be a magic key to end global gridlock dissolved in chaotic preparatory talks in Lima. At best, Paris may …
Transparent, consistent, and accurate national forest monitoring is required for successful implementation of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) programs. Collecting baseline information on forest extent and rates of forest loss is a first step for national forest monitoring in support of REDD+. Peru, with the second largest …
Over a day behind schedule, the world set the stage for a new climate treaty by agreeing to the Lima Call for Climate Action on Sunday, which was slammed by NGOs and people’s movements. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in a statement said the governments agreed …
In a tug-of-war between rich and poor nations, the United climate change summit at Lima has turned out a “lacklustre plan with little scientific relevancy”, said WWF climate expert Samantha Smith on the deal struck on Sunday. The hard-fought agreement sets out guidelines for the submission of national greenhouse-gas pledges …
Better protecting the world's fast-disappearing mangroves could have big economic, social and environmental benefits, experts said at the U.N. climate talks in Lima this week. Besides protecting shorelines from extreme weather and providing fish a safe place to breed, mangroves could play a big role in trapping climate-changing carbon emissions, …
While Minister of State for Environment Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday reiterated that there was no role for any external review of targets that each country set for itself to cut carbon emissions, the head of the U.S. delegation at the Lima talks, Todd Stern, clarified that no climate deal is …
Taking off from the documentary on former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth , Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 2011 book, Convenient Action, Gujarat’s Response to Challenges of Climate Change , is being distributed by the Indian delegation here as part of the country’s official kit on India’s climate action. …
TO GET to the tent city in the grounds of Peru’s defence ministry, where UN climate talks are being held between December 1st and 12th, delegates and hangers-on must pass an assault course. Its obstacles of steep walls, ropes across ditches and parallel bars, normally used by soldiers, are a …
LIMA: Amid hope to seal the climate deal in Paris next year, crucial negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) kicked off in the Peruvian capital on Monday with the key UN body appealing the world to step up their actions to deal with disastrous consequences …
Researchers have found startling evidence that a severe El Niño can actually slow the growth of children, stunting their height. This reportedly occurred 17 years ago, when an intense El Niño and its resulting floods were linked to the stunted height of local children in Peru. That is at least …
