By Anam Zeb
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s fifth assessment report (AR5) produced a powerful warning to the world: “If we continue to emit CO2 at the rate at which we are doing, mean global surface temperatures are likely to exceed 2⁰ Celsius.
By Rixa Schwarz
Who does how much on domestic emission reduction and international support? This is becoming an omnipresent question in the preparations to Lima and Paris. Some countries have started preparing their initial Nationally Determined Contributions (iNDCs) while some wait to see what others offer.
By Vositha Wijenayake and Vidya Nathaniel
Edited by Navam Niles
The 21st Session of Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), scheduled for December 2015, should set the stage for a new climate change agreement. Ideally, this COP will create a binding universal agreement on climate change with tangible targets affecting all the parties.
South Asian people are more vulnerable because of severe impacts of Climate Change, Disaster and Food Security. Bundle of declarations have been prepared at previous #SAARC summits to fight climate change and natural disasters and to ensure food security, but proper implementation of commitment does not seem to be effective. The street drama will be […]
The population of the #SAARC region out of the global population is about 23.7% of which many are poor and vulnerable and mostly living in rural area, directly depending on agricultural. With 23.7% share in global population, the region has only share 2.62% share in global income. Adding to this, 60% of the South Asian […]
By Vositha Wijenayake
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report has expressed that majority of climate change has been created by human induced causes, that impacts are already felt, and if we do not take actions fast, we are heading for a bleak future.
[Dhaka] November 09, 2014: Today six right group networks and two journalist fora on climate change, in a joint press conference held at National Press Club, criticised the present Environment Minister’s approach to climate change issues and appealed for the Prime Minister’s intervention in respect to the preparation for UNFCCC (United Nation Frame work for […]
By Latha Jishnu
IN September, as a stunned India watched Jammu & Kashmir grapple with unprecedented floods, the worst in living memory as its chief minister described it, there was a call from an acquaintance, a retired professor.
The 20th Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and CMP 10 (Conference of Parties serving as Meeting of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol) will take place during 1st to 12th December in Lima.
The 18th SAARC Summit will be held in Kathmandu on the 26-27 November 2014. The overall theme for the Summit is identified as “Deeper Integration for Peace, Progress and Prosperity,” and is expected to to address many important regional concerns