South Asia, a potential hotspot for global warming, is open to social vulnerability as future projections reveal a possible intensification of social factors and forces that create inequitable exposure to the risks and damages of climate change.
The challenge of the South is now to balance the demands for climate change mitigation and meet its development needs in the region by linking development and environment issues at this critical time.
29-06-2009As it is, Indian monsoon is a “complex and mysterious phenomenon” and climate change is making it even harder for any meteorologist to predict its course through existing models. Farmers are finding it impossible to depend on the forecasts to time their sowing, harvesting and all other agricultural activities.
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30-06-2009Very little is known about how people are coping with climate change in rural areas, especially in developing countries where three out of four persons live in villages. Sparse coverage of adaptation has implications for the world's poor, who are in most need of such information.
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Image: The world's most vulnerable people are the rural poor/ Photo credit: IRIN
14-06-2009Financing emission cuts in developing countries now and helping them adapt to climate change will reap rewards in the future, says James Ensor, Director of Policy at Oxfam Australia. Denial of the truth about climate change will derail the process of securing a global deal at Copenhagen, he adds.
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03-07-2009Mountain Biodiversity and Climate Change highlights the need to address the impacts of climate change on the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region. This publication of ICIMOD has been developed from contributions made in a conference held last year that had brought together some 75 renowned experts.
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Image: Cover page of the report/ Photo credit: ICIMOD
OneWorld South Asia''s Seventh
Annual Regional Meeting on February 8-9, 2008, at New Delhi, focused on Southern voices and
perspectives on the Climate Change debate. More...
