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.
16-11-2009At the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, world leaders announced on Sunday morning that a legally binding deal on climate change would be impossible to achieve at the climate change summit in Copenhagen next month.
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Image: President Barack Obama, center, stands with other APEC leaders for a group photograph following their evening dinner in Singapore/ Photo credit: AP
20-11-2009OneClimate.net has launched a new interactive TV channel that allows people across the world to watch the Copenhagen climate conference live on their computer. The channel will feature breaking stories, an opportunity to interact with experts, as also crowd-sourced and crowd-distribution system to ease out participation from people worldwide.
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09-11-2009Pulka and her friends after receiving training under a DFID programme in solar power technology came back to bring light and power in their villages. Known as India’s female barefoot solar engineers, today these tribal women are engaged in spreading solar power far and wide, writes journalist Alex Renton.
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Image: The barefoot solar engineers of Tinginaput, India. Left to right: Talsa Miniaka, Pulka Wadeka, Meenakshi Dewan and Bundei Hidreka/ Photo credit: DFID/ Abbie Trayler-Smith
20-11-2009UNFPA’s report The State of World Population 2009 focuses on the disproportionate impact of global warming on women, marginalised poor and the coastal populations. It argues that the international community needs to take into account their needs, rights and potential while formulating policies, programmes and treaties on climate change.
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Earth 'heading for six degree C' of warming New findings are pointing towards the fact that average global temperatures are on course to rise up to dangerous six degree Celsius. It is therefore mandatory for world leaders to take urgent action to curb CO2 emissions, says the lead author of the report.
OneWorld South Asia''s Seventh
Annual Regional Meeting on February 8-9, 2008, at New Delhi, focused on Southern voices and
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