Climate Change
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South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change 2010 in New Delhi on Nov 24-25, 2010
24/11/2010
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United Nations Climate Change Conference Oct 2010 at Tianjin, China from 4-9 Oct. 2010
04/10/2010
Feature Articles
Fire, fuel composition and resilience threshold in subalpine ecosystem
Forecasting the effects of global changes on high altitude ecosystems requires an understanding of the long-term relationships between biota and forcing factors to identify resilience thresholds. Fire is a crucial forcing factor: both fuel build-up from land-abandonment in European mountains, and more droughts linked to global warming are likely to increase fire risks.
Sep 2010
PLoS ONE
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Corporate Green House Gas Inventorization for software and service sector, from 15-17 Sept. 2010 at Hyderabad
15/09/2010
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How resilient are urban cities to climate-related disasters
This latest study by Christian Aid, explores the root causes of vulnerability of 12 urban Indian cities with different geo-climatic settings, by considering multi-sectoral and developmental approach.
09/09/2010
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UNFCC chief wants rich countries to indicate $30bn fund sourcing
Christiana Figueres from Costa Rica, who took over as head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) this July, said she expected rich countries to also indicate the “sourcing of $30 billion” that they committed during the last climate summit in Copenhagen.
“The funding will be available, but the expectation of 100 per cent additionally may not be met,” Ms Figueres cautioned, refer
09/09/2010
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Kyoto Protocol to continue post 2012: UN climate chief
RASHME SEHGAL
NEW DELHI
UNFCC top boss Christiana Figueres on a day-long visit to New Delhi admitted that there was a strong need to develop clarity and flexibility in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) for carbon trading.
“The global carbon market is dogged by uncertainties arising out of the lack of
clarity on how CDM would evolve,” said Christiana Figueres making a keynote address at
09/09/2010
Asian Age (New Delhi)
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Kyoto Protocol to continue post-2012: UN climate chief
As hopes for any deal on global warming dims at the Cancun meet later this year, UN climate chief Christiana Figueres on Wednesday made it clear that the Kyoto Protocol will continue post-2012 as a second protocol since it does not have a ‘sunset’ clause.
“Yes, it (Kyoto Protocol) will continue to exist as a second protocol because it does not have a sunset clause.
09/09/2010
Pioneer (New Delhi)
