Environment Ministers Discuss Ways to Conserve Biodiversity
A global meeting of environment ministers and heads of related international organizations began in the eastern city of Pyeongchang on Wednesday to discuss ways to conserve biodiversity for sustainable...
View ArticleU.N. Meeting Emphasizes Border Area Biodiversity
Environment-related officials from 124 countries agreed to widen the scope of global coordination on preserving biodiversity worldwide during the 12th meeting of the United Nations Convention on...
View ArticleEradicating Poverty Goes ‘Hand in Hand’ With Biodiversity Protection – UN...
UN News Center: The protection of biodiversity is directly related to the eradication of poverty and stimulation of economic growth, senior United Nations officials stressed today at a meeting in...
View ArticleEU Reaches Consensus on Climate Change Targets
PTI: European Union leaders have reached a deal on a comprehensive package of climate targets, including a binding 40 per cent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from the level of 1990 by 2030. They...
View ArticleNo Concrete Result Reached in UN Climate Talks in Bonn
(Xinhua) — The third round of United Nations’ 2014 climate talks wrapped up in Bonn, Germany, on Saturday, reaching no concrete result and leaving heavy workload to climate conference in Lima, Peru, in...
View ArticleWorld Has Decided Not to do More to Fight Climate Change Till 2020
Do not expect any country to up its fight against climate change between now and 2020. That is the plain reading of the diplomatic gobbledygook produced at the UN Framework Convention on Climate...
View ArticleIPCC Preparing ‘Most Important’ Document on Climate Change
BBC News: The IPCC Synthesis Report will summarise the causes and impacts of – and solutions to – rising temperatures. It will be the bedrock of talks on a new global climate deal. But there are...
View ArticleOn First-ever World Cities Day, UN Spotlights Need for Sustainable Urban...
As the world’s urban areas inevitably expand, growing both in size and in population, they will also need to transition into better planned and better managed environments or risk exacerbating negative...
View ArticleClimate Change Threatens Irreversible and Dangerous Impacts, But Options...
UNEP News Center: Human influence on the climate system is clear and growing, with impacts observed on all continents. If left unchecked, climate change will increase the likelihood of severe,...
View ArticleBan Ki-moon: World Leaders are Ready to Sign Climate Deal
World leaders are ready to sign an international agreement to combat climate change, says UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon. In contrast to their failed efforts five years ago in Copenhagen, politicians...
View ArticleUN Climate Report Offers Stark Warnings‚ Hope
Climate change is happening, it’s almost entirely man’s fault and limiting its impacts may require reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero this century, the U.N.’s panel on climate science said...
View ArticleClimate Change Fight Affordable: United Nations
Governments can keep climate change in check at manageable costs but will have to cut greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2100 to limit fast-worsening risks, a UN report showed today. The 40-page...
View ArticleIPCC’s Report on Climate Change Brings an Opportunity and Challenge for India
India’s quest for high growth and efforts to ensure development and access to energy for its people has found recognition in the latest report of the United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel on...
View ArticleIPCC Urged Again to Fill Regional Research Gaps
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) should do practical research that can help mitigate global warming effects and advance knowledge in regions such as Africa where climate systems are...
View ArticleAmplifying Women’s Voices in Climate Change Solutions Focus of UN Conference
UN News Center: Aiming to develop more gender-sensitive services, a United Nations-led conference kicking off in Geneva today is spearheading a drive to ensure that weather and climate services reduce...
View ArticleSAARC Workshop Begins
A two-day workshop has begun here from today to hold discussions on common problems to be raised by the 18 the SAARC Summit. The Summit is going to be held in Kathmandu from November 26 and 27....
View ArticleUNEP signs Landmark Agreement to Strengthen Partnership on Environment and...
Efforts to address environmental challenges across the 22 countries of the Arab region were today enhanced with the signing of a new agreement between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)...
View ArticlePeru: COP20 Must Succeed
The international community “cannot allow” the major 2014 UN climate change conference – scheduled for December in Lima – to end in failure, according to a key adviser to the Peruvian government. The...
View ArticleIntl Meet Calls for Setting up EWS Stations Across Himalayas
Press Trust of India: An international conference on climate change, attended by experts from countries including India, today underlined the need to install more stations across Himalayas so as to...
View ArticlePush for Biodiversity to Have Deeper Role in SDGs
Biodiversity is moving up the global development agenda, following a major meeting of policymakers at the 12th Conference of Parties (COP12) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in...
View ArticleWorld on Track to Meet 2020 Goal for Protected Land, Sea, More Work Urgently...
While the world is on track to meet a 2020 target on the expansion of protected areas, more work is needed to ensure areas of importance for biodiversity and ecosystem services are prioritized for...
View ArticleSouth Asian Experts’ Top Ten Recommendations for a Stronger Post-2015...
The pre-zero and zero drafts of the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) have now been released and the process to forge this global agreement in March 2015 is fast gaining momentum....
View ArticleThe Path to Climate Neutrality: UNEP Gap Report
The UN’s top climate official today welcomed a report that underlines how the world can keep a global temperature rise under 2 degrees Celsius. The report, released today by the UN Environment...
View ArticleUN: Cut CO2 Emissions to Zero by 2070, or Experience a ‘Global Catastrophe’
The Guardian: The world must cut CO2 emissions to zero by 2070 at the latest to keep global warming below dangerous levels and prevent a global catastrophe, the UN warns. By 2100, all greenhouse gas...
View ArticlePC Recommends Bringing Down SAARC Centres From 11 to 5
The process of the 18th Summit of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation started today with the 49th Programming Committee meeting of the regional bloc in Kathmandu. The PC discussion...
View ArticleProspects Rise for a 2015 U.N. Climate Deal, But Likely to be Weak
(Reuters) – A global deal to combat climate change in 2015 looks more likely after promises for action by China, the United States and the European Union, but any agreement will probably be too weak to...
View ArticleFull Text of the Kathmandu Declaration
1. (Regional Cooperation): The Heads of State or Government expressed their strong determination to deepen regional integration for peace, stability and prosperity in South Asia by intensifying...
View ArticleCommon View on Climate Change, Disaster Mitigation
The leaders of Saarc member nations have called for cross-border information sharing and regional cooperation mechanism to fight climate change and to minimise the risks of natural disasters like...
View ArticleRajendra Pachauri: Science Offers Clear Rationale for Climate Action
On the basis of observations the AR5 has found that warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia. The...
View ArticleProgress Towards Ogoniland Clean-up following Geneva Talks
Two-day stakeholder meetings held in Geneva on 24-25 November 2014 have carved a clear path forward for the implementation of environmental remediation measures proposed by UNEP in the Environmental...
View ArticleClimate Change Adaptation Comes of Age in U.N. Talks: TRFN
(Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In Peru, where two weeks of U.N. climate talks begin Monday, melting glaciers and more extreme weather such as hot spells and flash frosts are already harming crops and...
View ArticleDevelopment and Climate Days at UN Climate Talks to Highlight ‘Historic...
Extreme poverty and the impacts of climate change, which already affect many millions of people worldwide, can be overcome by far-sighted, joined-up action on both at once, the Development and Climate...
View ArticleCOP 20 in Lima: Africa at Disproportionate Risk from Climate Change
Today, the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 20) begins in Lima (Peru) and is widely seen – as Elias Ntungwe Ngalame in an article for Deutsche Welle (DW)...
View ArticleUN Lima Climate Talks Hit by Rift Over Funding and Adaptation Commitments
Negotiators at the UN climate talks in Lima have encountered yet another stumbling block with nations divided over including finance and adaptation commitments in national action plans. The European...
View ArticleLima Climate Summit: Saarc Stands Up to be Counted as One
The Saarc bloc has finally emerged as a united force at the ongoing climate talks with ministers and key representatives of all eight member countries formally sealing the existence of south Asia as a...
View ArticleUN’s Technology Mechanism Launches First Project in Chile
The first research project to be funded under the UN’s Technology Mechanism, a process that supports the development of technologies that can help mitigate climate change, has kicked off. The project,...
View ArticleFast-Tracking Elimination of Production of Remaining Ozone-Depleting...
The recovery of the ozone layer – the shield that protects life on Earth from harmful levels of ultraviolet rays – would come sooner if we were to fast-track the elimination of the production of the...
View ArticleInterconnected World: Banuri Links Growth With Social Justice, Climate Issues
The idea of sustainable development remains to be incomplete without addressing growth, social justice and environmental issues simultaneously as they all are interlinked and can’t be taken in...
View ArticleAll Leaders Must Rise to the Challenge for December 2015, Warns Outgoing EU...
Climate change talks next year will be make or break for international efforts to curb global warming, with the credibility of the UN-backed process at stake, the outgoing EU climate chief, Connie...
View ArticleWe Are the Last Generation That Can Fight Climate Change. We Have a Duty to Act
This year the UN marks its 70th anniversary. Sadly, there is little time for reflection or celebration. More pressing are the competing demands and challenges fuelled by an upsurge in conflict, disease...
View ArticleSouth Korea Launches Asia’s First National Carbon Market
Asia’s first national carbon market began trading in South Korea this week. Second in size only to Europe’s, the carbon market forms part of South Korea’s strategy to cut emissions 30% in 2020,...
View ArticleLast Year Was Earth’s Hottest on Record, U.S. Scientists Say
(Reuters) – Last year was Earth’s hottest on record in a new sign that people are disrupting the climate by burning fossil fuels that release greenhouse gases to the air, two U.S. government agencies...
View ArticleRevisiting Mountain Perspective: Reasons And Challenges
K N Vajpai: This article is in the series of responses to an article on ‘Mountain Perspective’ at Link. It looks in to the aspects of mountain perspective and specificities as mentioned by Dr. N. S....
View ArticleMontreal Protocol Averts Threat of Large Increases in Skin Cancers
The threat of large increases in skin cancers has been avoided due to the success of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer in controlling ozone depletion, according to the...
View ArticleCall For Nation To Be Forceful On Climate Change
THE College of the Bahamas’ Climate Change Initiative group is calling on The Bahamas to forcefully put forward its position on protecting the country’s rights and interest in global climate change...
View ArticlePakistan, Trade, Emissions Issues Could Frustrate Closer Indian-US Ties
In a few days, Barack Obama will become the first sitting US president to visit India twice while in office. The two countries are undoubtedly getting closer, but, it might be not as wonderful as it...
View ArticleUN Climate Chief: Carbon Bubble is Now a Reality
Green groups have warned that huge reserves of oil, gas and coal are overvalued and could lead to a “carbon bubble”. This is because increasingly stringent climate policies will require around half of...
View ArticleJapanese Technology to Boost Flood Warnings in South Asia
IANS: A sophisticated flood forecast model developed by Japanese scientists will enhance early warnings and help mitigate the impact of climate change in the flood-ravaged trans-boundary river basins...
View ArticleWe Should Not Surrender to Climate Change
This month a team of scientists reported that melting ice caps and glaciers due to climate change are causing oceans to rise more drastically than previously calculated. The news is particularly...
View ArticleClimate Negotiations Reveal New Alliances in the Global South
The economic divides between developing countries are widening. In order to defend their interests at the climate negotiations, large emerging economies, small island states and the less advanced...
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