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Responding to increasing concerns over climate change, TERI, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES: www.iges.or.jp), and World Bank Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC: www.jointokyo.org) had jointly developed a distance learning programme on ‘Science and Policy of Climate Change’ using blended learning technologies....
The 2014 International Conference and Utility Exhibition on “Green Energy for Sustainable Development” being organized by the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand will be held on 19-21 March 2014 at the Jomtien Palm Beach Resort and Hotel, Pattaya City, Thailand. ICUE 2014’s timely central theme of “Green Energy for Sustainable Development” will undertake...
The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has released an online portal to share measurements of forest carbon pools globally. At present, the site includes data from 16 locations in seven countries in Asia and Central America.
The Forest Carbon Database (FCDB) provides resources for helping countries develop capacity to monitor national and sub-national activities, based on the...
From 12 – 19 November 2013, the UNIDO Institute and the Energy and Climate Change Branch will conduct a Professional DevelopmentProgramme on Sustainable Energy Solutions. It will be organized in cooperation with the International Centre for Promotion of Enterprises (ICPE) in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The 8 day course shall give participants the...
The International Water Resources Association (IWRA) and the Scottish Government are pleased to announce that the XVth World WaterCongress will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland from 25 to 29 May 2015.
About the Congress
Held every three years since 1973, the World Water Congress is one of the most important events in the water field...
Water levels of the critical rivers that originate in the Himalayan glaciers will not drop over the next century, say scientists.
The latest research led by Dr Walter Immerzeel, a scientist from Utrecht University in the Netherlands and visiting scientist at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in Nepal, indicates that increasing rains would prevent...
The UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development hosted by the Cooperation and Development Center (CODEV) is pleased to announce that the third International Conference on Technologies for Development: What is Essential? will take place at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland on 4-6 June 2014. The conference – held in English – will offer a high-...
By Simon Redfern (Reporter, BBC News)
Instead of wearing mountains down, evidence from Europe's high Alps shows that glaciers shield summits from erosion, acting as a protective lid.
French scientists studied erosion on Mont Blanc, western Europe's highest peak, below and around its glaciers.
Ice at the highest points froze to the mountain rock and played little part in erosion, the...
A series of publications from the UN-REDD National Programme for Indonesia focussing on REDD+ and its potential to achieve multiple social and environmental benefits are now available.
These four brochures include a guide to decision-support tools for REDD+ and the use of spatial information to promote multiple benefits from REDD+. All the brochures, including translated versions in Bahasa...
I would like to draw your attention to Interpretative Approaches to Global Climate Governance: (De)Constructing the Greenhouse, an edited volume recently published by Routledge.
The book, edited by Chris Methmann, Delf Rothe and myself, combines contributions from seasoned climate governance experts with the work of young and upcoming scholars. It assembles 14 interpretive inquiries into...