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Climate change's tech transfer challenge
Getting the right technology into poor countries is crucial for fighting climate change but how should we go about it? T. V. Padma investigates.
Reducing forest emissions: Facts and figures
Hannah Chalmers gives the low-down on how reducing emissions from deforestation can play a central role in tackling climate change.
'Dark earth' and its carbon-holding powers
Locking carbon away as charcoal in the soil could help to mitigate climate change but whether it will work in practice remains a mystery.
Growing money on trees?
Growing forests might be easy but getting developing-country forests onto the carbon market is proving more difficult.
Q&A: Clean technologies with Yvo de Boer
Yvo de Boer, the UN climate chief, speaks to SciDev.Net about getting clean technology into the developing world.
Managing world's tropical forest spurs debate
The UN supports forest protection in the next climate agreement, but questions on how to tackle deforestation are still being debated.
Monitoring climate change at the top of the world
Scientists in the Himalayas are battling poor resources to protect the area from the effects of climate change. T. V. Padma reports.
Bhutan's balancing act: Happiness vs. development
T. V. Padma reports on Bhutan's dilemma: how to reconcile conservation, economic development and happiness in a modern world.
Development versus climate change in India
India won't halt development to avoid greenhouse gas emissions but is taking steps to adapt to climate change that is already inevitable, reports T. V. Padma.
FEATURE | 31 August 2006 | EN
India & climate change: Facts and figures
T.V. Padma looks at how and why greenhouse gas emissions from India are on the rise.
FEATURE | 18 August 2006 | EN
Wet or dry? Sahel's uncertain future
Climate change in Africa's Sahel region challenges researchers and policymakers because the best models around predict opposite outcomes, reports Catherine Brahic.
FEATURE | 5 June 2006 | EN
What next? Carbon markets and clean development
Catherine Brahic reports on how fluctuations in Europe’s emissions market could impede green development in poor countries.
FEATURE | 19 May 2006 | EN
The bumpy road to clean, green fuel
Charles Mkoka and Mike Shanahan report on the drive to produce 'biodiesel' from billions of trees planted across the developing world.
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