Climate impacts in northern forests
Northern forests hold around 54% of the world’s total terrestrial carbon stock and contribute more than one-third to our global terrestrial carbon sink. This report reviews the impact of human induced
Carbon Sinks
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Ocean fertilization picked apart
Environmental groups have condemned an Australian company's plan to dump tonnes of urea into Philippine waters as part of an experiment called ocean fertilization to combat climate change. The
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A world without mangroves?
At a meeting of world mangrove experts held last year in Australia, it was unanimously agreed that we face the prospect of a world deprived of the services offered by mangrove ecosystems, perhaps within the next 100 years. Mangrove forests once covered more than 200,000 km2 of sheltered tropical and subtropical coastlines.
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Framework for a Post-2012 Agreement on climate change: a proposal of Global Leadership for Climate Action
The purpose of this document is to propose the outlines of a broadly acceptable framework that addresses the following issues: differentiated targets and timetables; forests as carbon sinks; market-based mechanisms; adaptation; research, development and deployment; technology cooperation; and finance.
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Interpreting estimated environmental Kuznets Curves for greenhouse gases
This article examines the question of how to interpret a relationship between income and carbon emissions in a country (the environmental kuznets curve [EKC] for carbon). A very simple and graphical structural model of an EKC is developed, and the problems of applying the concept to carbon are discussed.
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Undone
10th climate change meet shows how weak the will to combat global warming has become
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Don t let the carbon go
Be careful how land use and land cover changes
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The climate-forest continuum
I remember how I first learnt about global warming. It was in the late 1980s. My colleague Anil Agarwal and I were searching for policies and practices to regenerate wasted common lands. We quickly
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Equity watch: UNFCCC/CoP8, New Delhi, October 23 - November 1, 2002
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The US and us
Bush s position is immoral and contemptous, but so is our inability to tell him he is wrong <br>
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Equity watch: UNFCCC/CoP6, The Hague, 13 - 24 November, 2000
Special editions of the 6th Conference of Parties (CoP-6) to the United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC), The Hague, The Netherlands, 13 - 24 November, 2000.