14.06.2012
Science Mitigates Climate Uncertainties in Mexico City
Rising temperatures, water scarcity, loss of biodiversity, widespread respiratory ailments and urban heat islands are some of the climate impacts faced by the Mexican capital, one of the world’s biggest cities. |
14.06.2012
Qatar to showcase climate strategy at COP 18 meet
DOHA THEUnited Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 18) which will be hosted by Qatar in November, will be a platform for the country to showcase its long term climate policy strategy, an international climate change expert has said. |
13.06.2012
Barack Obama skips Rio+20 Earth summit
Barack Obama will skip a United Nations summit billed as a "once-in-a-generation opportunity" to make progress on global development, sending Hillary Clinton in his place. |
13.06.2012
Developing world holds key to keep Rio principles alive
With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh slated to attend the Rio summit on sustainable development, the government has prepared the grounds to help 'friendly' Brazil but not accept the adverse conditions that Europe is keen to impose at the event, which culminates with the meeting of heads of state from June 20 to 22. |
11.06.2012
China launches climate change think tank
China's newly established national think tank for climate change has put the "top level design" of China's carbon trading system top of its agenda agenda. |
06.06.2012
Civil bodies against clean credit for Tawang dam
Several organisations have categorically opposed granting of clean development mechanism (CDM) credit under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to the 780-MW Nyamjang Chhu hydropower project in Arunachal Pradesh's Tawang district, bordering China. |
06.06.2012
Oman’s climate change scenario in focus
MUSCAT Sultan Qaboos University hosted the second workshop on “Initial National Communication to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) from Oman” recently. |
06.06.2012
UN leader seeks to head off Rio summit tragedy
UN leader Ban Ki-moon is battling to rescue a summit of more than 100 world leaders in Rio de Janeiro in two weeks which he says must guide the world away from a "tragic" end. |
05.06.2012
Climate Change 'Biggest Threat' to Food Security
When it comes to expressing the threat to food security posed by changing climate patterns and extreme weather events in Asia and the Pacific, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) does not mince its words. |
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