Full Coverage: Climate change
December 2007
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The aim of this Guide is to provide an introduction to the subject of Climate Change with particular emphasis on the problems faced by developing countries
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28.12.2007
UNDPÂ’s latest Human Development Report 2007-08 titled: Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world, talks of how people across the globe have already started facing the adverse effects of climate change. It makes a passionate call to act now before this ecological catastrophe becomes unavoidable.
more...Related topics/regions: [Environment] [United Nations] [MDGs] Image: Human Development Report 2007/2008 / Photo credit: UNDP
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26.12.2007
The Phulbari coalmine in Bangladesh is set to cause major social and environmental upheavals in the region, displacing between 50,000 to 200,000 residents. World heritage site, Sunderbans mangrove forests, would also face extensive damage.
more...Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Corporations] [Environment] [Human rights] |
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21.12.2007
Protecting endangered peatland areas will drastically reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
more...From: Worldwatch Institute Related topics/regions: [Land] [Biodiversity] [Conservation] [Soils] Image: © John Menard / Worldwatch Institute
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20.12.2007
Located in a small hamlet in Boormajra in northern Indian state of PunjabÂ’s Ropar district, a government school was adjudged as the countryÂ’s greenest school second time in a row. A Delhi-based organisation, Centre for Science and Environment under its Green School Programme, in a ceremony held here distributed the awards to 20 schools for their best environmental practices.
more...From: OneWorld South Asia Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Capacity building] [Children] [Environment] [Conservation] [Environmental activism] Image: Award ceremony / Photo credit: CSE
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20.12.2007
More...From: no organisation Related topics/regions: [Environment] [Conservation] [Environmental activism] [Forests] Image: congressman markey
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20.12.2007
Increasing levels of greenhouse gases are threatening the disappearance of plants and animals in mountains globally, warns FAO, while also raising chances of flooding, species migration and loss of crops and life.
more...Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Fisheries] [Food] [Environment] [Animals] |
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19.12.2007
Bangladesh government had sought almost US$ 2 billion in aid from the international community to rehabilitate people affected by the cyclone. The country is in urgent need of assistance if it has to recover from devastation.
more...Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Development] [Capacity building] Image: Naya Para in Barguna District, Bangladesh was devastated by the category 4 storm / Photo credit: David Swanson / IRIN
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18.12.2007
Engineers Without Borders and others have bagged the prestigious Mondialogo Award for developing a low cost solar powered lantern. This new technology will not only help improve the quality of life of the poor in the developing world, but also decrease global dependence on petroleum along with reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
more...Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Energy] [Pollution] [Renewable energy] Image: Solar powered Light Emitting Diodes / Photo credit: Mondialogo
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17.12.2007
OneClimate, a website by the OneWorld network, has helped people travel light to the UN climate conference at Bali through the online virtual world of Second Life.
more...Related topics/regions: [Transport] [Environment] [Internet] [United Nations] |
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15.12.2007
So the US joins in the global consensus at the last moment - but is the world better or worse off as a result? Anuradha starts the reactions to the Bali climate change conference.
more...Related topics/regions: [United States] [United Nations] Image: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaking about global warming © United Nations
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14.12.2007
This week, the World Bank introduced a new multi-million dollar fund to remunerate developing countries for the value of their living forests at the UN climate conference in Bali.
more...From: Environment News Service (ENS) Related topics/regions: [Conservation] [Environmental activism] [Forests] Image: Cloud forest. © Amazon Watch
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14.12.2007
When Rasid Naim, a young Filipino man from a family of rice farmers, applied organic farming techniques to his land, he not only saved money from mixing his own pesticides and fertilizers, but also saw his crops grow more resilient to drought and flash floods.
more...From: Oxfam America Related topics/regions: [Philippines] [Agriculture] [Capacity building] Image: Rasid Naim. © Oxfam America
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14.12.2007
Yet again the US has chosen to go against the UN framework on climate change and instead has put forward a proposal without any binding international commitment. Greenpeace International says itÂ’s a made-in-the-USA plan for a climate catastrophe.
more...Related topics/regions: [International cooperation] [Environment] [Environmental activism] [United Nations] Image: UN Climate Change Conference 2007: Bali, Indonesia ©UNFCCC
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13.12.2007
Biogas systems in Nepal have been in use for last half a century and today thousands of households are using them. Every biogas system avoids nearly 7.5 tonnes of carbon emissions per year, which may be small when compared globally, but this is an example of how poor countries can help combat global warming.
more...Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Capacity building] [Energy] [Environment] Image: Nepal's biogas users play a key role in reducing carbon emissions / Photo credit: Naresh Newar / IRIN
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12.12.2007
US Congressman Edward J. Markey took an alternate — and virtually carbon-free — route to Bali this morning, as he offered the United Nations climate summit there a vision of US climate policy that is strongly critical of the Bush administration.
more...From: OneWorld US Related topics/regions: [United States] [Politics] Image: Congressman Markey © Jeffrey Allen / OneWorld US
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12.12.2007
A senior US Congressman will “travel” virtually to participate in the climate conference currently going on in Indonesia. This has been made possible by OneClimate along with Cisco to save the carbon cost of flying.
more...Related topics/regions: [Environment] [Conservation] [Environmental activism] [Pollution] [United Nations] |
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11.12.2007
Global initiatives to reduce carbon emissions are bound to fail if the interests of indigenous communities are not taken into account, leaders of the world's 370 million indigenous peoples are warning.
more...From: OneWorld US Related topics/regions: [Indigenous rights] [Activism] [United Nations] Image: Members of the indigenous Miskitos community. © Pan American Health Organization
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11.12.2007
The United Nations 'framework convention' on climate change currently going on at Bali, Indonesia is halfway through and yet no breakthrough is in sight, says Anil Netto. The official view, however, is one of optimism that progress has been made in laying the ''building blocks'' for a future agreement.
more...Related topics/regions: [International cooperation] [Poverty] [Environment] [Environmental activism] Image: Balinese silk batik on display at the convention centre / Photo credit: UNFCCC
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10.12.2007
Shenanigans at the UN climate change conference in Bali: Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley - a British climate sceptic who has already presented "The IPCC's Scientific Fraud" at one of the conference's many side-events - was called out of a room in which he was speaking and told he would be "thrown out by security" if he continued to hold press briefings within the conference compound. As usual these days, the confrontation has been captured on YouTube (UNmenace1. mov and UNmenace2.mov).
more...Tuesday, Bali: Monckton strikes again. In a nearby hotel - not the UN conference centre - he is due to be part of a panel that will speak after a screening of the "anti" TV programme The Great Global Warming Swindle. From: OneWorld UK Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Indonesia] [United Nations] |
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10.12.2007
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