Poor nations 'need to find own path to green economy'
National priorities must dictate how poor nations make the transition to green economies, a meeting ahead of Rio+20 conference has heard.

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National priorities must dictate how poor nations make the transition to green economies, a meeting ahead of Rio+20 conference has heard.
Pakistan's new green energy policy seeks to import technologies, but experts say more money for its own R&D could be a longer-term solution.
5 July 2011 | EN
No major breakthrough, but only some progress in talks and decisions is expected at Cancun climate summit.
The new body created by the Honduran government will handle international funds to mitigate the impact of climate change in the country
Source: El Heraldo y La Tribuna
17 June 2010 | ES
Bolivia’s President, and its ambassador to the U.N., have requested that the agreements reached at the Cochabamba Summit be included in COP16.
Source: El Nacional y Prensa Latina
10 June 2010 | ES
Christiana Figueres is the first leader of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to come from a developing country.
Source: BBC y UNFCCC
27 May 2010 | ES
Brazil, China, India and South Africa have promised to increase climate science cooperation in the developing world.
Morocco's huge solar-thermal project aims to produce more than a third of the country's energy by 2020.
India has launched an ambitious solar energy mission but if it is to succeed, say experts, it must boost its technological capacity.
14 January 2010 | EN
Amid the general developing country gloom at the Copenhagen climate conference outcome, there are some reasons for hope, say experts.
Rich and poor nations have teamed up to research how agriculture can meet soaring world food demands without increasing emissions.
18 December 2009 | EN
Africa should set up 'climate innovation centres' to help it adapt clean energy sources to its varied needs, say energy advisors.
Natural phenomena that have masked global warming will draw to a close by 2010, says the UK's Hadley Centre.
Leading agricultural scientists have called for a two-pronged solution to the food crisis, starting with fast roll-out of existing technologies.
11 December 2009 | EN
Amazonian countries will demand at the Copenhagen climate talks that the developed world helps to pay for the protection of their forest.
9 December 2009 | ES
China and the EU will take their carbon capture and storage collaboration forward, with plans for a demonstration plant in 2015.
Bamboo huts, interactive radio and solar-powered desalination are among the winning ideas of a climate adaptation competition.
Agriculture and how it can adapt to climate change should be given more attention at Copenhagen, a group of scientists has urged.
Meeting the G8 emissions targets would mean poor countries compromising their development, Chinese researchers say.
Strong intellectual property rights do not always ease the transfer of climate technologies and may even hinder it, claims a study.