Climate risk profile: Ethiopia
This profile provides an overview of climate risks facing Ethiopia, including how climate change will potentially impact agriculture and crop production, livestock, water resources and human health. The
This profile provides an overview of climate risks facing Ethiopia, including how climate change will potentially impact agriculture and crop production, livestock, water resources and human health. The
New Delhi: With developed countries still not forthcoming on the issue of providing technology and finance to the developing countries to fight climate change, India has asserted that it was not dependent on
The SGSY is being recast. The new name given is National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM). Mission model is the newer approach as it the trend or practice with several of our flagship programmes. The aim, as the NRLM draft claims, is to overcome the limitations of SGSY by restructuring it to speed up the process of poverty reduction.
Around the world, provision of microfinance is becoming a mainstay development intervention for poverty alleviation and empowerment of the poor. Microfinance involves the provision of thrift, credit and other financial services and products of very small amount for enabling the poor to raise their income levels and improving living standards.
In sustaining rural livelihood, sustainability of credit provisioning operation is highly essential. It assumes more significance in the case of developing nations with low per capita income and high level of poverty. It is also important to note that in many of the developing nations the financial viability of rural lending institutions is not satisfactory.
A new report commissioned by the Heinrich Boell Foundation and written by the UK's Institute for Public Policy Research focussing on fair sharing of climate finance commitments.
The purpose of this study is to provide a better understanding of the potential of India
The report highlights three specific areas in which the global economy experienced systemic failures. While there are many more facets to the crisis, UNCTAD examines here some of those that it considers to be the core areas to be tackled immediately by international economic policy-makers because they can only be addressed through recognition of their multilateral dimensions.
The Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) is in the news again for the wrong reasons, as usual. This time the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited (SSNNL) is trying to go back on its promises to the very investors who put their money in the project when it was facing its strongest opposition from all quarters.
The current economic downturn consitutes an opportunity for a sustainable future. But there is a risk that the EU member states free themselves of their responsibilities laid down by the renewable energy directive.
The aim of this paper is develop a new institutional architecture and governance structure for the Financial Mechanism (FM) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change