Publications
The final report of the RES Integration Study presents an overall assessment of implementations on national level. It will present an overall assessment of implementations on national level as well as recommendations for decision makers at national and European level. These topics also formed the subject of the final workshop of the RES Integration Project on 7 December 2011. This...
Climate change impacts in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region are particularly severe owing to the large amount of the population depending on climate-sensitive livelihoods such as agriculture. This publication is a result of ICIMOD’s collaboration with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), and national partners in China,...
Respect for the rights of women and girls worldwide continues to lag behind that for the rights of men. Domestic and sexual violence, exploitation in the workforce, human trafficking and many other human rights abuses disproportionately affect women and girls. Although 187 nations have acceded to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), many have...
The expectations for the 2011 climate conference in Durban were extremely low, as countries were dealing with a deepening economic crisis. Yet, an agreement was reached that some called a triumph for European climate diplomacy. This is noteworthy as European climate leadership had increasingly been called into question after the failure of the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009. The EU’s...
The report is an effort to inform project developers and policy-makers about the main lessons learned by the BioCarbon Fund while accompanying the development of more than 20 A/R CDM forest projects in 16 countries since it started operations in 2004. It sheds light on opportunities the CDM offers to the forestry sector and also on the challenges encountered by project developers when complying...
The United States has famously failed to develop a strategy for slowing and adapting to climate change, but that hasn’t stopped the US states of Oklahoma, California, and Oregon from creating frameworks to support greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions trading.All three are among more than 20 national and sub-national governmental agencies around the world that have incorporated voluntary climate-change...
This Summary for Policymakers presents key findings from the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX). The SREX approaches the topic by assessing the scientific literature on issues that range from the relationship between climate change and extreme weather and climate events (‘climate extremes’) to the implications of these...
The Secretariat of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention) has released Ramsar Technical Report No. 6, titled "Healthy wetlands, healthy people: a review of wetlands and human health interactions." The report was published jointly with the World Health Organization (WHO).The report focuses on providing advice to wetland managers and decision makers on...
The global focus on the threats posed by climate change has drawn attention to the fact that water will be the medium through which many of its impacts will be felt. In addition to the direct impacts of damaging floods and interruptions to water supply due to drought, a particular concern in many regions is the threat to food security, driven by changing rainfall patterns and increased aridity....
Livelihood and natural resources utilization pattern in ethnically diverse area in Arunachal Pradesh
The majority of the mountains and Himalayan population depend upon agricultural and forest based natural resources for their livelihoods (Singh et al., 1994; Sundriyal et al., 1994) The traditional farming system in the Himalaya is a mixture of crop and animal husbandry, which provides fodder, firewood, food and medicine for human and timber for house construction (Upreti et al., 2001). Increased...