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Climate change is the greatest challenge facing the world today. Long-term development planning must now include measures to deal with it.
Opinions and Analysis
Citizen scientists an untapped resource
Volunteer citizen scientists are an important resource — particularly for developing countries, argue Nigel Winser and Raghu Saxena.
25 April 2008
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Climate assumptions 'optimistic at best'
The UN has underestimated the technological challenges of stemming carbon emissions, say Roger Pielke Jr, Tom Wigley and Christopher Green.
Policy Briefs
To be resilient to climate change, Africa must adapt
Better integration of science and policy in Africa is crucial for effective adaptation to climate change, concluded an international workshop.
30 July 2007
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Source: IIED/Tyndall Centre
NAPAs put climate change adaptation on the map
National Adaptation Programmes of Action put climate change adaptation on the development agenda, write Balgis Osman-Elasha and Thomas E. Downing.
30 July 2007
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Source: European Capacity Building Initiative, University of Oxford
News and Features
Climate change 'will cost Andes US$30 billion'
The effects of climate change could cost the Andean countries' economies around US$30 billion, researchers predict.
22 May 2008
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Sub-Saharan Africa news in brief: 9–28 May 2008
Free HIV drugs drop Malawi mortality, farmers struggle to access adapted maize, radio initiative fails to reach Nigeria farmers, and more.
22 May 2008
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