Indepth: Climate Change

Pudducherry Draft action plan on climate change

Date: 30/08/2010

Read this Draft Action Plan on Climate Change by Govt. of Pudducherry. The document highlights the various approach and activities formulated for adopted six missions of NAPCC to mitigate the climate implications faced by the Union Territory of Puducherry.

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Latest News from Down To Earth

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Count the soot

BLACK carbon, or soot, was known as a threat to only the public health until 2007 when the UN climate agency, IPCC, said it is a major contributor to global warming after CO2.

Blogs

Energy politics (part 1): BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico: will it force change?

31 May 2010 Posted by :Sunita Narain

As I watched President Barack Obama speak on the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico many thoughts crossed my mind.

Nepal's right to energy movement: lessons for super-grids of the future

04 May 2010 Posted by :Sunita Narain

Sorry for the long silence in the blog space. But I was fatigued and rather frustrated with the same old arguments and going-nowhere debates. So in the last few months we have been busy with new research to bring different perspectives to the old problems -- how will we share the increasingly scarce budget in an increasingly at-risk carbon constrained world.

Negotiation

Forests and climate change after Copenhagen: an Asia-Pacific perspective

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in collaboration with RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests, convened a meeting on 3 February 2010, in Bali, Indonesia.

Source: RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests

Tags: Carbon Market, Climate Change, COP15, Copenhagen, Copenhagen Accord, Forest Policy, Forest Products, REDD, UNFCCC, Forests
Workshop on international decision making Copenhagen 24 - 25 Mar 2010, London: Summary Report

Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD) held a Workshop on international decision making following Copenhagen from 24 - 25 March 2010 at London.

Source: FIELD

Tags: Climate Agreements, Climate Change, Copenhagen Accord, European Union (EU), Measurable, Reportable and Verifiable (MRV), REDD

Mitigation

Low carbon lifestyles: a trainer's toolkit

This is a trainer's guide to low carbon lifestyles. This ‘Training toolkit on low carbon lifestyles’ is a set of materials in an easy to understand language, based on up to date science and policy inputs. It aims to arm a trainer with facts and figures on how small changes in everyday actions can help reduce an individual’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere.

Source: UNDP

Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Energy Efficiency, Fuel Efficiency, Lifestyles, Low Carbon Economy, Water Conservation
Indian Farm Forestry Development Co-operative Limited (IFFDC) Wasteland Forestation Project

This document details the IFFDC Wasteland Forestation Project plantations in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. The project has assisted farmers, especially women, to promote forestation on wastelands and marginally productive lands by organising Primary Farm Forestry Co-operatives (PFFCs) and thus making it a people's participative programme.

Source: Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance

Tags: Afforestation, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Farmers, Land Tenure, Madhya Pradesh, Public Participation, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Wastelands, Water Conservation, Women, Biodiversity, India

Impact

Drought drives decade-long decline in plant growth

Earth has done an ecological about-face: Global plant productivity that once flourished under warming temperatures and a lengthened growing season is now on the decline, struck by the stress of drought.

Source: NASA

Tags: Agriculture, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Drought, Flora, Global Warming, Green House Gases

Evaluating the relative environmental impact of countries

Source: PLoS ONE

Tags: Asia, Brazil, China, Climate Change, Ecosystems, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Environment, India, Water Pollution, Industry
Marine biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and carbon cycles

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Tags: Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Ecosystem Services, Marine Ecosystems, Marine Fisheries, North Atlantic Ocean, Biodiversity
Climate change implications for food security and natural resources management in Africa

Source: FAO

Tags: Africa, Climate Adaptation, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Climate Mitigation, Ecosystems, Food Security
Transforming rural livelihoods in India

Source: DFID

Tags: Climate Change, Economic Development, Food Security, Land Resources, Rural Development, Rural Poverty, India, Water Resources
Formation of glacial lakes in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas and GLOF risk assessment

Source: ICIMOD

Tags: Afghanistan, Asia, Bhutan, China, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Glaciers, Himalaya, Lakes, Nepal, Pakistan, Remote Sensing, Space Technology, Environment, India

Gender, disaster risk reduction, and climate change adaptation: a learning companion

This Learning Companion aims to provide Oxfam programme staff with the basis for incorporating gender analysis and women’s rights into Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) programming. Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction are priorities for Oxfam GB, as are strengthening women’s rights and gender equality.

Source: Oxfam International

Tags: Climate Adaptation, Climate Change, Disaster Preparedness, Global, Women, India

Books

Climate action

Climate action is produced by Sustainable Development International in partnership with the UNEP to encourage and assist governments and business to lower greenhouse gas emissions.
Challenge of the new balance

The new CSE study of the six most emissions intensive sectors to determine India’s low carbon growth options. Finds that while industry can meet the 2020 target under even business as usual scenario, its options beyond this are few, difficult & very expensive.