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Adaptation becomes hard to adapt in climate summit

By: Navin Khadka on December 18th, 2009

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Officials and experts say negotiations on climate adaptation have become ever more complicated, leaving least developing countries badly frustrated as  they badly need funds  to cope with inevitable impacts of climate change.

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    The Chaotic, Erratic Monsoon

    By: Rina Saeed Khan on August 23rd, 2010

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    Pakistan’s torment is partly self-inflicted – but many suspect the country’s tragedy shows what the world should expect as climate change takes hold,

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    Farewell to Yvo de Boer

    By: Rina Saeed Khan on June 28th, 2010

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    In his farewell speech the UN’s outgoing climate chief, Yvo de Boer, told his audience: “To use World Cup imagery: we got a yellow card in Copenhagen and the referee’s hand will edge towards the red one if we fail to deliver in Cancun and beyond”.

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    Adaptation Fund to directly finance developing countries

    By: Rina Saeed Khan on June 27th, 2010

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    For the first time, developing countries will be able to obtain money from the UN’s climate convention to help them to adapt to climate change directly and without having to go through multi-lateral bodies.

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    Long Haul Ahead for Climate Talks

    By: Maria Clara Valencia on June 11th, 2010

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    Cristiana Figueres, the new head of the UN Climate Change Convention, thinks the world may have several more decades to wait for agreement on cutting greenhouse gas emissions – time which many scientists say is simply far too long.

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    Mountain Countries Compete to Voice Climate Concern

    By: Navin Khadka on June 10th, 2010

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    A race is on between Nepal and three other countries to register their respective groupings with the UN so that they can help to amplify the concerns of mountainous countries about climate change.

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    Women Feel the Impact of Climate Change

    By: Fidelis Zvomuya on June 10th, 2010

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    Rural women in developing countries are faced by huge climate change-related challenges yet very little is being done to make sure that they are part of the discussion process.

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    Where’s the Water in Climate Change?

    By: Servaas Van den Bosch on June 10th, 2010

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    Water is the most important way climate change will make its impacts felt, experts agree. But it is marginalised in the negotiations, argues a conglomerate of over 2,000 water organisations that want a water programme under the UN’s Climate Change Convention.

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    Cameroon Refused Access to Climate Funds

    By: David Akana on June 9th, 2010

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    Cameroon will not benefit from funds being raised to combat the adverse effects of global warming. Cameroon’s exclusion from eligibility for a share of the US $30 bn (about 16 trillion FCFA) likely to be available is because it has not signed the Copenhagen Accord agreed late last year at the UN climate summit.

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    Pakistani and Indian journalists make links at climate workshop

    By: Alex Kirby on May 7th, 2010

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    About 30 journalists from Pakistan and India met at a workshop in Islamabad at the end of March to discuss common (transboundary) water problems affected by climate change.

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