Trade and development report 2009
The Trade and Development Report 2009 presents a gloomy global economic outlook in the context of the ongoing global financial and economic crisis.
The Trade and Development Report 2009 presents a gloomy global economic outlook in the context of the ongoing global financial and economic crisis.
Warming decreases low-level cloud cover, contributes to its own increase WHEN the oceans warm, water evaporates and cloud cover increases. This is the well known science behind cloud formation. A new study begs to differ. Of the three major kinds
The Punjab Environment Protection Department is establishing a climate change cell for offering technical advice to the stakeholders on climate change and carbon trading.
Least developed countries (LDCs), the worst victims of global warming, are far from raising effective voice thus failing to reap expected success from the ongoing negotiations of climate change due to fragile diplomacy, experts opined.
New Delhi, Aug 28 Climate Action Network South Asia (CANSA) on Friday organised a summit to mark the 100-day countdown to the United Nations Copenhagen Climate Summit. The organisation also launched the
While news reports and disaster movies remind us about tipping points for Arctic melt and sea level rise, some things closer to home get less attention. Take food supply: new modelling studies show that there are climate tipping points here too, beyond which crop yields will collapse.
The building sector has a big responsibility and role to play in combating global warming. In 2007, a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report estimated that this sector, when it adopts suitable measures, can help reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 30 per cent to 40 per cent.
GREEN TOUCH: Information and Urban Development Minister Parithi Illamvazhuthi planting a sapling at the Koyambedu wholesale market complex on Wednesday.
Adapting to the effects of climate change such as floods and droughts will probably cost many times more than the United Nations estimates, a report said on Thursday ahead of a major U.N. summit in December.
The White House budget update released on Tuesday still reflects a controversial Obama administration plan to combat global warming by auctioning all permits to emit greenhouse gases even though Congress has said it will give away a substantial portion to industry.
A 400 billion euro ($774 billion) plan to power Europe with Sahara sunlight is gaining momentum, even as critics see high risks in a large corporate project using young technology in north African countries with weak rule of law.
It is an intense, but a lone battle, being fought in the non-descript classrooms of schools in remote and dusty villages in Salem and Dharmapuri districts against the emerging threat
If the big and largely rich emitters of today were to take mitigation in the immediate future seriously, they could achieve emission reductions without denying the poor in India the prospects of a humane existence, says Arvind Panagariya
Temperature reconstructions for the surface of the Northern Hemisphere are based largely on terrestrial records from extra-tropical or high-elevation sites, despite the fact that global average surface temperature changes closely follow those of the global tropics, which are 75 per cent ocean.
The White House budget update released on Tuesday still reflects a controversial Obama administration plan to combat global warming by auctioning all permits to emit greenhouse gases even though Congress has said it will give away a substantial portion to industry.
The United States needs to have a climate change law in place before international talks on a climate pact begin in December, two top Obama administration officials said on Monday. The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed legislation in June to cut U.S. carbon emissions from utilities, manufacturers and others 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.
A 400 billion euro ($774 billion) plan to power Europe with Sahara sunlight is gaining momentum, even as critics see high risks in a large corporate project using young technology in north African countries with weak rule of law.
African leaders will ask rich nations for $67 billion per year to mitigate the impact of global warming on the world's poorest continent, according to a draft resolution seen by Reuters on Monday. Ten leaders are holding talks at African Union (AU) headquarters in the Ethiopian capital to try to agree a common stance ahead of a U.N. summit on climate change in Copenhagen in December.
The U.S. Department of Energy said on Monday it has awarded $27.6 million of funding to evaluate the potential risks of storing carbon dioxide underground, which is seen as a way to control global warming. The total value of the 19 projects selected is about $35.8 million over four years, with $27.6 million of DOE funding, according to the DOE.
Little progress has been made so far on a new pact to combat global warming, with "commercial and political interests" continuing to prevail, China's senior climate change official said on Monday.