Full Coverage: Climate change

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.

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.

21.12.2007 Protecting endangered peatland areas will drastically reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).
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.

10.12.2007 Delegates at the Bali Climate Change Conference have the opportunity to view a live screening of the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo today. They may recognise the recipients. A timely reminder that continued inaction on global warming is ultimately a threat to world peace.

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