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Prof Myles Allen of Oxford University will give a presentation on how climate modelling can help to establish the causality between emissions and damaging weather events. He has argued that a comprehensive liability regime might be a more effective resolution of the climate issue than...
Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director, said: “The paper by the Blue Planet laureates will challenge governments and society as a whole to act to limit human-induced climate change, the loss of biodiversity and the degradation of ecosystem services in or...
Plans for a multi-billion dollar fund to help developing countries deal with climate change hit a big barrier this week when countries could not agree on the design of the fund. The decision came on Tuesday at a meeting of an international committee tasked with designing the fund in t...
The water rights often feature in the growing number of large land deals that governments are signing with investors (see First detailed study of large land acquisitions in Africa warns of impacts on poor rural people ) as many of these areas require irrigation to be viable. Such deal...
Communicating climate change is an "orphan" issue among policy-makers, according to speakers at Climate Communications Day , the first ever day-long public forum organized by and for journalists at a climate summit. There is general agreement that communications is important, but few ...
The Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) has awarded journalists from 14 countries with fellowships to attend crucial UN talks in Durban that could spell the demise or rebirth of the Kyoto Protocol. The 18 journalists – from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and the United...
Governments are ignoring a vast store of knowledge -- generated over thousands of years -- that could protect food supplies and make agriculture more resilient to climate change, says a briefing published today by IIED. It urges negotiators at the UN climate change conference in Durba...
Developed countries are being far from transparent about the climate-change finance they promised to developing nations at the Copenhagen summit in 2009, according to a scorecard published today (19 September) by IIED. The scorecard's authors urge international negotiators who are gat...
