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Nitrous Oxide
A powerful greenhouse gas, whose major sources include soil cultivation practices, especially the use of commercial and organic fertilizers, fossil fuel combustion, nitric acid production, and biomass burning.
No Regrets
This is the term used to describe measures whose benefits — such as improved performance or reduced emissions of local/regional pollutants, but excluding the benefits of climate change mitigation — equal or exceed their costs. [Source: IPCC]
Information Services
Missed the Global Health Forum 2009?
Our blog, by SciDev.Net columnist Priya Shetty, will fill you in, as will our interview with the Global Forum's Gill Samuels
Clean cooperation
Countries must cooperate to develop clean technologies. Joint technology innovation centres can help
Just add water
Policymakers must improve water storage to help developing countries adapt to climate change
A climate for disease?
Will climate change worsen the burden of insect-borne disease? The scientific jury is still out
