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• Drought-management considerations for climate-change adaptation: focus on the Mekong Region

  This study considers some aspects of the recent droughts in the Mekong region and tries to discover what could be the reasons behind them and how best they could be mitigated. The study has yielded valuable information about how communities perceive drought and climate change, and how local governments and NGOs could manage climatic disasters, particularly drought. It concludes that the drought impacts are in a real sense a reflection of developmental problems, and it provides policy options that could be implemented by communities, governments, and NGOs.

  • 01/01/2007

  • Oxfam International
  • • Climate Change
    • Climate Adaptation
    • Drought Management
    • Vietnam

• Climate change and its implications: which way now?

  The impact of climate change on the world of today and the future is undeniable. Stipulated emission reduction targets for developed countries are still too modest under the Kyoto Protocol and the US, the world's largest polluter remains outside the agreement. The scientific community warns that a global coordinated response with participation of the major emitters and rapidly growing economies of China and India is the only way forward to avoid the worse predicted effects of global warming. This paper reviews the debates and attempts to trace the path to the future.

  • 31/12/2006

  • The Commonwealth Foundation
  • • Climate Change
    • Global Warming
    • Climate Impacts
    • Africa
    • Asia

• Environmental laws: implementation problems and perspectives - policy and process, role of courts, role of people and NGOs

  This book endeavours to provide a relatively complete, comprehensive and valid account and analysis of problems of implementation of environmental laws in India. The approach of the book is to look into the problems with the comprehensiveness of both substantive and procedural aspects of environmental laws. The book contains all major case laws in India having impact in the implementation process. The book is addressed to all with an interest in state of affairs of environmental laws in India.

  • 31/12/2006

  • Deep and Deep Publications
  • • Environment
    • Pollution
    • Climate Change
    • Legislation
    • Environment Court
    • NGO
    • India
    • Convention On Biological Diversity (CBD)

• Reducing carbon emissions through community-managed forests in the himalaya

  This book reports on the work carried out by the research project 'Kyoto: think global act local", which aims to bring local sustainable forest management projects under the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol. The book draws on work carried since 2003 at three sites in India and Nepal. In India, the project sites were in Uttarakhand state, and in Nepal, in Ilam, Lalitpur, and Manang districts. The project gathered data to show that community-managed forests can play important roles in mitigating the adverse impacts of climate change by sequestering CO2 from the atmosphere.

  • 31/12/2006

  • ICIMOD
  • • Himalaya
    • Deforestation
    • Community Forest Management (CFM)
    • Carbon Dioxide
    • Climate Change
    • Green House Gases
    • Kyoto Protocol
    • Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
    • Nepal
    • India
    • Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)

• Do trees grow on money? the implications of deforestation research for policies to promote REDD

  This report summarizes the key drivers of deforestation and forest degradation, and the key policy options available to reduce the resulting carbon emissions. It reviews current deforestation rates and the associated issues related to monitoring forest-based carbon emissions and establishing baselines. The findings of research into the direct and underlying causes of deforestation and degradation provide a basis for outlining REDD policy options, while highlighting the associated challenges.

  • 31/12/2006

  • Center for International Forestry Research
  • • Forest Policy
    • Forest Research
    • Deforestation
    • Climate Change
    • Carbon Sequestration
    • Africa
    • Asia
    • South America

• A report on international summit on climate change: we cause global warming

  In view of the far-reaching consequences of climate change in India, the festival, held by the Centre for Media Studies, has declared the theme for this year's festival as 'Climate Change' and will hold a one-day "International Summit on Climate Change" on 13 September.

  • 31/12/2006

  • CMS Environment
  • • Climate Change
    • Global Warming
    • Climate Impacts
    • India

• In 100 years, rain forest may turn into grassy savannah

  Global warming could spell the end of the world's largest remaining tropical rain forest, transforming the Amazon into a grassy savanna before the end of the century, researchers said. Jose Antonio

  • 31/12/2006

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Climate Change

• BYTES

  the latest buzz: Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered the oldest bee ever known, a 100-million-year-old specimen preserved in almost lifelike form in amber, and an important link

  • 30/12/2006

  • • Bees
    • Canada
    • Medical Research
    • Physical Disability
    • Birds
    • Life Science
    • Research
    • United States Of America (US)

• Livestock production causes global warming, strains land and water resources

    Livestock production has become a major envioronmental management challenge. When its full commodity chain is included, the sector contributes to global warming, causes

  • 30/12/2006

  • • Grazing Lands
    • Livestock
    • Cattle
    • Animal Products
    • Milk
    • Deforestation
    • Climate Change
    • Global Warming
    • Global
    • Statistics

• Parliamentarians, environmentalists join hands to demand ban on soft drinks

  Several citizens' groups including environmentalists and parliamentarians joined hands and called for a ban on soft drinks manufactured by MNCs Pepsi and Coke, which have been given a clean chit by

  • 27/12/2006

  • Tribune (New Delhi)

• Glacial melting not' @ global warming

  Mr V.K. Raina, an expert on glacier studies, pooh-poohed claims that glaciers on the Himalayas were receding at an alarming rate. He described such reports as more of scientific fiction than fact,

  • 27/12/2006

  • Tribune (New Delhi)
  • • Climate Change

• Integrated model shows that atmospheric brown clouds and greenhouse gases have reduced rice harvests in India

  Previous studies have found that atmospheric brown clouds partially offset the warming effects of greenhouse gases. This finding suggests a tradeoff between the impacts of reducing emissions of aerosols and greenhouse gases.

  • 26/12/2006

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • • Agriculture
    • Rice
    • Carbon Dioxide
    • Atmosphere And Ozone Layer
    • Solar Radiation
    • Climate Change
    • Green House Gases
    • Aerosols
    • Fossil Fuels
    • India
    • South Asia

• Fire-fuel-climate linkages in the northwestern USA during the Holocene

  Variations in fire regimes can be inferred from changes in the abundance of sedimentary charcoal found in lake and bog sediments. When analysed with pollen data, inferences can be made about past vegetation dynamics and climate as well. The analysis of high-resolution charcoal records generally

  • 26/12/2006

  • Holocene
  • • Forest Fires
    • Climate Change
    • Charcoal
    • United States Of America (US)

• Climate sceptics issued with a challenge

  One of the world's leading climate scientists has challenged those who question the impact of the human population on global warming to defend their claims that car and factory emissions of carbon

  • 25/12/2006

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Climate Change

• Rising sea levels threat to Sunderban islands: Scientists

  Rising sea levels have submerged two islands in the Sunderbans, where tigers roam through mangrove forests in the Ganges river delta, and a dozen more islands are under threat, scientists say. A

  • 23/12/2006

  • • Climate Change

• Sino-Indian expedition to study glaciers

  In the first expedition of its kind in the world, a Sino-India team of experts will climb up to the sources of the mighty Brahmputra and Sutlej rivers to collect data for developing a model to know

  • 22/12/2006

  • Tribune (New Delhi)
  • • Climate Change

• Big profit driving efforts to cut warming gases

  Foreign business have embraced an obscure United Nations backed programme as a favoured approach to limiting global warming, but the early efforts have revealed some hidden problems. Under the

  • 22/12/2006

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)
  • • Climate Change

• Thane autorickshaw drivers demand more CNG pumps

  More than 8,000 auto running on CNG and just five pumps to cater to them. Worse, just two of them run round-the-clock. Long queues for fuel refill, too many competitors, and the recent decision of

  • 21/12/2006

  • Indian Express (Mumbai)
  • • Vehicular Pollution

• Who can eat information? Examining the effectiveness of seasonal climate forecasts and regional climate-risk management strategies

  <p>Southern Africa is a region facing multiple stressors, including chronic, recurrent food insecurity and persistent threats of famine. Climate information, including seasonal climate forecasts, has been

  • 21/12/2006

  • Climate Research
  • • Climate Change
    • Weather Predictions
    • Information
    • Africa
    • Droughts
    • Famine
    • Food Security
    • Farmers
    • Agriculture
    • Rainfall Pattern
    • Climate Adaptation

• EU environment chief seeks 30% emissions cut

  THE EUROPEAN Union's environment chief said on Monday he will seek a 30% cut in EU greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 as the bloc tries to set an example for the world on how to fight global warming.

  • 20/12/2006

  • Economic Times (New Delhi)
  • • Climate Change