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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)
Feature Articles
Global trade grows, so do imbalances
Global goods trade in the first half of 2010 was about 25 percent higher than the same period of the year before, and the value of worldwide merchandise trade grew during the second quarter, according to new data from the WTO secretariat. But the volume of global trade remains well below the peaks reached in mid-2008 before the global financial and economic crisis.
Sep 2010
Bridges Weekly Trade News Digest
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Reports and Documents
Towards global carbon pricing: direct and indirect linking of carbon markets
Emissions trading systems (ETS) can play a major role in a cost-effective climate policy framework. Both direct linking of ETSs and indirect linking through a common crediting mechanism can reduce costs of action. Use a global recursive-dynamic computable general equilibrium model to assess the effects of direct and indirect linking of ETS systems across world regions.
Sep 2010
OECD
Reports and Documents
Improving wastewater use in agriculture: an emerging priority
This paper aims to highlight the growing importance of improving wastewater use in agriculture across the spectrum from lower to high-income countries. It presents an innovative approach linking key issues related to different aspects of wastewater irrigation to a country’s
level of economic development.
Sep 2010
The World Bank
Reports and Documents
The wealth of waste: the economics of wastewater use in agriculture
The use of reclaimed water in agriculture is an option that is increasingly being investigated and taken up in regions with water scarcity, growing urban populations and growing demand for irrigation water.
Sep 2010
FAO
Reports and Documents
Progress for children: achieving the MDGs with equity
The past decade has seen considerable progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the fulfillment of children’s rights to survival, development and protection. But with the MDG deadline only five years away, it is becoming ever clearer that reaching the poorest and most marginalized children is pivotal to the full realization of the goals.
Sep 2010
UNICEF
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Pachauri-led IPCC needs fundamental reforms: UN panel
United Nations: A UN-ordered review said on Monday that the global panel on climate change needed to “fundamentally reform” how it operates after embarrassing errors in a landmark report dented its credibility.
The review also said that the climate panel should only make predictions when it has solid evidence and should avoid policy advocacy.
The five-month probe recommended an overhau
31/08/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Feature Articles
Car control
Cities all over the world are trying to ease congestion on roads , check car population to free their road space and this latest special report in Down To Earth finds out where India is headed and what lessons can the country learn from them.
Aug 2010
Down to Earth
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Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata lag behind in global cities' list
New Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata barely make the grade of global cities as the culture and market influence moves from nations to cities and from the West to the East, according to a new report.
"The 21st century will not be dominated by America or China, Brazil or India but by the city," said the report released by Foreign Policy magazine in collaboration with management consulting firm AT Kearne
18/08/2010
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Reports and Documents
Carbon Disclosure Project - Transport report
This new global study by Carbon Disclosure Project based on survey of 291 largest transport companies which include road, rail, sea and air transport reveals that majority of transport firms are not adapting to the risks and opportunities presented by climate change.
Aug 2010
Carbon Disclosure Project
