News:
14/12/15
Developing countries score small victory with nod to 1.5 degree target, whilst signatories aim to up joint R&D.
News:
11/12/15
French-led 4 Pour 1000 initiative hopes improved farming can lock away enough carbon to offset human emissions.
Multimedia:
11/12/15
As COP 21 ends, this audio report examines a way to accelerate the currently underwhelming efforts.
News:
11/12/15
New network aims to transfer knowledge about novel uses of the plant to cut carbon emissions, event hears.
Multimedia:
10/12/15
Hear an energy expert explain why the nation must clean up its politics as well as its energy system.
News:
10/12/15
Less than half of surveyed countries said they strongly understood technical ways to ease impact, finds report.
Multimedia:
10/12/15
Hear expert Heather McGray explain why smaller businesses will be vital in a world with scarce climate funding.
Multimedia:
09/12/15
In this video, we visit South-East Asia to investigate the locally designed Seeds of Life farming scheme.
Multimedia:
09/12/15
Hear the UNEP chief scientist discuss why the world must do much more if it is to meet the two degrees target.
SciDev.Net at large:
09/12/15
IPCC chairman Hoesung Lee wants more Southern voices in climate change, but this is easier said than done.
News:
09/12/15
Local land claims must be protected to stop greenhouse gas emissions from tree felling, forum hears.
News:
08/12/15
Paris meeting hears that goal to improve data collection must stay on the table to boost climate forecasts.
Multimedia:
08/12/15
Hear how forecast-based finance can protect the poor by automatically releasing money when risk rises.
News:
07/12/15
Group of developing nations prevent recognition of a science report backing a lower global warming target.
SciDev.Net at large:
04/12/15
The UN preaches gender balance, but is failing to do this itself at one of its most important meetings.
News:
04/12/15
Local people are skilled at enduring extreme weather, but will need outside help, meeting hears.
Analysis blog:
03/12/15
Newcomers are often seen as a burden, but their talent and labour can benefit cities, says Priya Deshingkar.
Multimedia:
01/12/15
This month’s show also features climate change impacts on public health, virtual reality and Muslim science.
SciDev.Net at large:
01/12/15
With world leaders at the summit from day one, COP 21 is shaping up to be different from its predecessors.
Analysis blog:
30/11/15
Business expertise is a vital part of a UN-hosted network to create green infrastructure, says Jukka Uosukainen.
Multimedia:
25/11/15
Delve into our interactive maps on the promises nations have made ahead of the UN’s COP 21 summit.
Analysis blog:
24/11/15
Men and women use emissions-cutting tech differently — but the COP 21 draft treaty ignores this, says Stella Gama.
SciDev.Net at large:
30/10/15
A world of grassroots creativity hums away, far from the world of policy — and it should probably stay that way.
Multimedia:
23/10/15
Listen to climate policy expert David Waskow wrap up a week of preliminary talks in Bonn ahead of COP 21.
Feature:
14/10/15
Ilan Kelman examines the history, overlaps and conflicts between climate change, development and disasters.
News:
16/09/15
Negotiators may block any move at the UN’s Paris climate summit to lower a warming cap of two degrees Celsius.
Multimedia:
17/12/14
From South Africa to Thailand, take a trip through the most popular video stories of the year.
News:
15/12/14
The document reiterates key climate change commitments, but a stronger approach is needed, say experts.
Multimedia:
15/12/14
In this podcast, finance expert Barbara Buchner discusses challenges and opportunities for private-public tie-ups.
Multimedia:
11/12/14
In this podcast, Lakshmi Puri of UN Women explains why gender issues are central to climate change talks.
Feature:
11/12/14
Research flags up challenges for adaptation and urges investors to embrace innovation.
Multimedia:
10/12/14
In this podcast, Mohamed Adow of the NGO Christian Aid talks about UNEP’s report on adjusting to climate change.
News:
10/12/14
Indigenous leaders at COP 20 say the Clean Development Mechanism needs inbuilt human rights safeguards.
Editorials:
10/12/14
This year’s COP negotiations should be judged by countries’ support for adaptation as much as mitigation.
SciDev.Net at large:
05/12/14
Indigenous group leaders from around the globe ask that their knowledge be respected in climate mitigation work.
Multimedia:
05/12/14
In this audio interview, Jennifer Morgan of the World Resources Institute details proposals for robust action.
SciDev.Net at large:
04/12/14
Nations won’t prioritise carbon monitoring if it doesn’t align with development agendas, COP 20 hears.
SciDev.Net at large:
04/12/14
A new initiative enlists ‘twenty-first century librarians’ to turn unruly masses of data into knowledge for action.
Multimedia:
02/12/14
These infographics set out the regional investment in mitigation and adaptation needed to cut the risk of disaster.
Opinion:
02/12/14
For climate data to be truly useful, scientists must work more closely with planners, says Sarah Opitz-Stapleton.
SciDev.Net at large:
01/12/14
The UN meeting offers a glimpse into complex climate change debates that normally go on behind closed doors.
Multimedia:
28/11/14
This photo essay explores how science preserves diversity and complements traditional knowledge at the Potato Park.
Multimedia:
23/09/14
In this interview, Ilan Kelman argues that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has had its day.
Feature:
23/09/14
UN official Alicia Bárcena argues that the new development goals must be universal and promote equality.
Feature:
18/09/14
Least developed countries negotiator Prakash Mathema tells SciDev.Net about the support the poorest nations need.
Opinion:
16/09/14
Indonesia’s success on carbon storage payments shows a way forward despite global stalling, says Julian Caldecott.
News:
29/05/14
Modelling climate change negotiations as a ‘bargaining game’ reveals developing nations’ hidden power.
Feature:
26/05/14
Manuel Pulgar-Vidal tells SciDev.Net about his hopes for the UN summit in Lima at the end of the year.
SciDev.Net at large:
25/11/13
Dealing with climate impacts in developing nations may become easier with two of the outcomes of the climate talks.
News:
04/09/13
Expert advice on carbon capture technologies led to an agreement at UN climate talks in Durban, says a study.
News:
14/09/12
A report urges focus on development priorities in more nations as part of a plan to bolster the UN's faltering
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News:
29/03/12
Planet Under Pressure speakers said developing countries should be included in decisions about climate change
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Editorials:
17/12/10
The modest achievements of last week's climate talks in Mexico must not create a false sense of complacency.
News:
19/04/10
Disaffected countries and social groups are meeting en masse this week to agree what they want from the next UN
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News:
21/12/09
Amid the general developing country gloom at the Copenhagen climate conference outcome, there are some reasons for
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Analysis blog:
26/08/09
Time is running out for African countries to ensure that a global climate deal addresses their needs, says Linda
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Opinion:
08/07/09
South Asian countries must be rewarded for afforestation, reforestation and carbon stock growth, say N. H.
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Opinion:
24/06/09
IPCC chair R. K. Pachauri calls on journalists to maintain focus on the scientific rationale for action in their
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News:
01/04/09
A new report has urged that climate talks consider agriculture's role as both a casualty and driver of climate
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News:
14/12/07
The UN has approved an adaptation fund that will provide support for dealing with climate change to poor nations.
Opinion:
17/06/05
An export duty on carbon-intensive products, similar to that recently imposed by China on textiles, could help
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News:
05/11/02
Developing countries last week rejected Western demands to set targets for limiting their emissions of greenhouse
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