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Long Haul Ahead for Climate Talks
No commentsCristiana 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.
»Mountain Countries Compete to Voice Climate Concern
No commentsA 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.
»Where’s the Water in Climate Change?
1 commentWater 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.
»Floods in Kenya : Climate reality dawns
1 commentNearly 35 people were reported dead in Kenya in the first few weeks of January, following heavy rains. The Meteorological Department says the rains will subside by the end of the month, but the destruction in their wake is linked to years of environmental degradation. Rosalia Omungo reports on the reality beyond the Copenhagen summit.
»Colombia’s Indian communities join forces to beat drought
No commentsColombia’s indigenous peoples are working together to create an adaptation plan against climate change, which will bring together their own traditional knowledge with outside help from other agencies.
»Dying marine life spells woe for Namibian economy
No commentsThe Benguela is lauded as the current of plenty but the future of its rich marine ecosystem is uncertain. Scientists fear warming seas will spell disaster for the economy of the region where the Atlantic, Indian and Southern oceans meet.
»The glacier that buried a village
No commentsScientists fear mountain glaciers are melting faster than ever as a result of rising temperatures, leading to fears that glacial lakes are becoming dangerously unstable. For Chitral village in Pakistan’s Hindu Kush mountain range this has already spelled disaster.
»Hindu Kush Himalaya region ‘on front line of climate change’
No commentsThe countries most vulnerable to climate change are in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region, home to 1.3 billion people, scientists say. They face increasing threats from floods, droughts and forest fires, and their agriculture-based economy is at risk.
»Paradise lost
Comments offHow climate change is affecting Ladakh, a cold desert up in the Himalayas… and how locals are coping with the problem of water scarcity.
»Maldives leader urges end to climate blame game
No commentsThe President of the Maldives says it is no use trying to pin the blame for climate change on any group – but he insists that the developed world must pay poorer countries to help them to cope.
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