Global report on El Nino and health
The World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners predict a major global increase in health consequences of emergencies this year due to El Niño. El Niño is a warming of the central to eastern tropical
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Northern Hemisphere summer monsoon intensified by mega-El Niño/southern oscillation and Atlantic multidecadal oscillation
Prediction of monsoon changes in the coming decades is important for infrastructure planning and sustainable economic development. The decadal prediction involves both natural decadal variability and anthropogenic
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National security and the threat of climate change
The purpose of this study is to examine the national security consequences of climate change. The specific questions addressed in this report are: What conditions are climate changes likely to produce around the world that would represent security risks to the United States?; What are the ways in which these conditions may affect America’s national security interests?; What actions should the nation take to address the national security consequences of climate change?
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Toward a global baseline of carbon storage in collective lands: an updated analysis of indigenous peoples' and local communities' contributions to climate change mitigation
A new report quantifies the carbon stored aboveground in tropical forests that are legally owned or traditionally held by Indigenous Peoples and local communities in 37 countries across tropical America,
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Battle of the brackets
The Plan of Implementation is a list of vague expressions
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Banning science from meeting fiction
Is quite different from letting politics crassly dictate research
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Rio BASIC meet in July-end to invite other developing nations
AHEAD of the August round of negotiations at Bonn, the BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) countries will meet in Rio de Janeiro in late July. This will be the third quarterly meeting of the four countries. It is expected that the other developing countries will be invited to take part in the deliberations.
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Dependence of riparian communities on ecosystem services in Northern Ghana
This study investigated the dependence of three riparian communities on ecosystem services in northern Ghana. Participatory mapping and ranking exercises in gender-segregated groups were used to elicit
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The climate of poverty: facts, fears and hope
This report offers the vision of a different future - a revolution in development thinking that could see poor regions using renewable energy to power a new and clean era of prosperity. The report analysis focuses on sub-Saharan Africa - which has the highest concentration of the world's poorest people. By using Kenya as a case study, the report examines how climate change is fuelling violence in drought-hit areas. The report also looks at Bangladesh, where virtually the entire population is precariously perched just above sea level.
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Down To Earth
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Weather wonders!
IT WAS the inexorable hand of climate that spurred human evolution. This is the latest finding of Peter researcher, working with the University of Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Observatory, us. No
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BASIC to tell UN of voluntary action
RASHME SEHGAL Ministers of the BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) met in New Delhi on Sunday and reiterated that they formed an integral part of G-77 even as they underscored the need to revitalise the entire UNFCCC process. By doing so, it becomes obvious that the BASIC countries are also throwing their weight behind the Kyoto Protocol and the Bali Action Plan.
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Drought forces Egyptians into felling trees
a recent study has revealed that trees are in significant decline in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. The desert ranks among the most extreme deserts, with average annual rainfall being less than 30
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Future hydropower production in the Lower Zambezi under possible climate change influence
Hydropower is the most important energy source in Mozambique and many other countries in southern Africa. Substantial hydropower development is planned for the Lower Zambezi for the next decades, with
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Climate Control
Politics gets the better of common sense on the issue of global warming. At the upcoming climate change talks in Buenos Aires, US led developed countries will try to ensure that ceilings on non domestic emission curbs do not materialise. They will press f
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2nd Africa Ecosystem Based Adaptation for Food Security Conference 30-31 July 2015, Kenya
This event "the 2nd Africa Food Security and Adaptation conference (AFSAC2)" is taking place on July 30 to 31, 2015. The theme this year is: Africa’s Soil the New Frontier: Re-imagining Africa Food Security
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Mapping out global biomass projections, technological developments and policy innovations
This report forms part of a project aiming to develop a South-South-North partnership to reshape the impact of a predicted large-scale expansion in global biomass energy use towards greater poverty reduction and maintenance of ecosystem services in developing countries.
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US breaks ranks, moots global carbon tax system
New Delhi: In what could make the trade battle over EU’s carbon tax on aviation more complicated for India, the US has suggested that countries adopt a global carbon tax system under the International
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Shrinking lake creating a threat in North Africa
Near the dead centre of North Africa, where water has long been scarce and long-term drought is making it scarcer yet, one of the last large water bodies, Lake Chad, has shrunk by 95 per cent since
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World urbanization prospects - 2014 Revision (Highlights)
<p>According to this 2014 revision of the World Urbanization Prospects produced by the UN Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs Africa and Asia are urbanizing faster than other regions and the largest urban growth will take place in India, China and Nigeria. These three countries will account for 37 per cent of the projected growth of the world’s urban population between 2014 and 2050.</p>