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.
Letter of Intent on Cooperation on Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development between the Minister of the Environment of Israel and Italy
Sun, 2010-02-07Israel Ministry of Environmental Protection
Israeli Minister of Environmental Protection Gilad Erdan and Italian Minister for the Environment, Land and Sea Stefania Prestigiacomo signed a letter of intent on cooperation in the field of environmental protection and sustainable development on February 2, 2010.
Minister Erdan met with the Italian Minister Prestigiacomo during her visit to Israel as part of a delegation of nine ministers, he
ADB Funds Climate Change Study in South Asia
Thu, 2010-02-04Climate-L.org
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of the UK are financing a US$1.2 million study to help South Asia analyze the costs and benefits of climate change adaptation actions. The study, titled “Regional Economics of Climate Change in South Asia Part II: Adaptation and Impact Assessment,” follows an earlier assessment of the potentials and costs of adopting cleaner fuel technologies to support low-carbon growth in the region.
ADB, UK Study to Help South Asia Address Climate Change Challenges
Thu, 2010-02-04ASRIA
(The Asian Development Bank) - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Government of United Kingdom are financing a study to help South Asia analyze the costs and benefits of climate change adaptation actions.
ADB is providing a $500,000 technical assistance grant from its concessional funds, and the United Kingdom's Department for International Development will provide a $700,000 grant to lay the groundwork for the study, Regional Economics of Climate Change in South Asia Part II: Adaptation and Impact Assessment.
Tuvalu prepares to adapt to climate change through Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) Project
Tue, 2010-02-02IW:Learn
In upraising the profile of the PACC Project in Tuvalu, a one day inception meeting was held last week at the Government Conference Room to introduce and launch the project.
Mekong River Commission to establish climate change adaption demonstration site in Lao PDR
Tue, 2010-02-02IW:Learn
The Mekong River Commission (MRC) and Government of Lao PDR have agreed to establish a site for demonstrating best practice in dealing with the potential impacts of climate change on Lao agriculture and rural life.
A site has been chosen in Savannakhet, where the MRC's Climate Change and Adaptation Initiative (CCAI) will work with local farmers to assess how they may be affected by projected changes to the climate in coming year
IMF plans $112b climate change fund
Mon, 2010-02-01Herald Sun
THE International Monetary Fund is planning a $US100 billion ($112 billion) fund to help countries mitigate the effects of climate change, the agency's head said.
"The new growth model will be low carbon," Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the IMF, told political and business leaders meeting at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos this weekend.
Efforts to deal with climate change could not be blocked "just because we c