Ethiopia and UK leaders to head climate change team
Mon, 2010-02-15AFROL NEWS
The leaders of the United Kingdom and Ethiopia will head up a new high-level group launched by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, intended to mobilise financing swiftly to help developing countries combat climate change.
The Copenhagen Accord reached at December's United Nations conference in the Danish capital aims to jump-start immediate action on climate change and guide negotiations on long-term action, with developing countries to be given $30 billion until 2012 and then $100 billion a year until 2020.
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Himachal to set up Centre for Climate change
Mon, 2010-02-15Northern Voices Online
Shimla: Himachal Pradesh would soon be setting up a State Centre for Climate Change, Disaster Management and Snow and Glacier Studies for chalking out climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies and to enhance state’s preparedness for natural disasters such as earthquakes, landslides, glaciers lake outbursts, flash floods etc.
Africa Adaptation Programme Publishes Newsletter on Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
Mon, 2010-02-15Africa Adaptation Programme released a newsletter reporting on AAP national projects. The newsletter is first edition of the AAP monthly update. The goal of the Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP) is to keep the stakeholders, partners and interested parties informed of AAP's progress as they assist the 20 participating countries in pursuing their national AAP project goals over the next two years.
UN panel will give $126b for climate
Sun, 2010-02-14The Sydney Morning Herald
UNITED NATIONS chief Ban Ki-moon has set up a high-level advisory panel to mobilise more than $US112 billion ($126.2 billion) in funding to help developing nations battle climate change.
The panel, to be led by Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Ethiopian counterpart Meles Zenawi, aimed ''to mobilise the resources for climate change pledged at the recent climate change conference in Copenhagen'', Mr Ban said.
He said the group, evenly balance
Pacific leaders take action on clean energy, transportation, ocean conservation
Sat, 2010-02-13Globe-NEt
Leaders from British Columbia, California, Oregon, and Washington have signed onto a series of joint actions that will help create jobs, strengthen the Pacific Coast economy, advance action on climate change and clean energy, and protect the marine environment.
The actions were ratified today during the inaugural Leaders' Forum of the Pacific Coast Collaborative.
Climate change: call for "new climate diplomacy"
Wed, 2010-02-10European Parliament - Press Release
The EU should create a "new climate diplomacy", and its future budget must provide enough funding to protect against, and adapt to, climate change, say MEPs in a resolution approved on Wednesday.
Water Climate Forum Taps International Network to Tackle Adaptation Issues
Tue, 2010-02-09Life Science Weekly
Leaders in water management and climate change today embark on an ambitious campaign to push water adaptation issues on to the American policy agenda with Climate Change Impacts on Water: An International Adaptation Forum.
Forgotten crop varieties and landraces make a comeback in Georgia
Tue, 2010-02-09GEF
The direct-use value of biodiversity often goes overlooked when evaluating the importance of biodiversity. However, farmers in Georgia know better.
Agency Proposes Climate Service to Spur Adaptation
Tue, 2010-02-09The New York Times
The Obama administration announced plans yesterday to create a new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Service.
The proposed entity would provide "user-friendly" information to help governments and businesses adapt to climate change, creating a central federal source of information on everything from projections of sea level rise to maps of the nation's best sites for wind and solar power.
"Even with our best effor
Animals Cope With Climate Change at the Dinner Table: Birds, Foxes and Small Mammals Adapt Their Diets to Global Warming
Mon, 2010-02-08Science Daily
Some animals, it seems, are going on a diet, while others have expanding waistlines.
It's likely these are reactions to rapidly rising temperatures due to global climate change, speculates Prof. Yoram Yom-Tov of Tel Aviv University's Department of Zoology, who has been measuring the evolving body sizes of birds and animals in areas where climate change is most extreme.
Changes are happening primarily in higher latitudes, where Prof.