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Climate change & energy

Climate Change Energy Picture

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

Planting magroves in Kenya 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 | EN

coal fired powered station, with cooling towers and chimney stacks 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.

3 April 2008 | EN | 中文
Source: Nature

Aid needed to help China make carbon cuts

8 February 2008 | EN | 中文
Source: Science

Health professionals must consider climate change

28 January 2008 | EN | 中文
Source: British Medical Journal

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 | EN
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 | EN
Source: European Capacity Building Initiative, University of Oxford


News and Features

Farmer Agri-biotech firms committing 'intellectual property grab'

Agri-biotech firms are seeking patents on 'climate crops', which could hinder developing country farmers, says a report.

16 May 2008 | EN
Source: The Washington Post

Smoking and obesity are increasing problems in India South Asia News in brief: 30 April–15 May 2008

Asia gets a new climate change fund, how the tuberculosis bug gets its iron, gene causing Indian obesity found, and more.

15 May 2008 | EN


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