climate change
This discussion jpaper sets out to analyse the relationship between gender and climate change in Viet Nam, and to recommend appropriate policy actions that will both address climate change and promote gender equality. It represents a collaborative effort by the UN and Oxfam in Viet Nam, with the involvement of a broad range of stakeholders.
The paper argues that climate change...
Climate change is the single greatest threat to development - making the battle to overcome poverty ever harder and more expensive. Finance is urgently needed to help vulnerable communities adapt to a changing climate.
At Copenhagen, there was progress on finance, if limited. The Copenhagen Accord proposed the establishment of a 'Copenhagen Green Climate Fund' and included a loose...
The objective of this paper was to organize the information, classify and resolute the altered frequency of climatic types of different micrometeorological stations in Kathamndu valley ( Kakani, Budhanilakantha, Godavari, Khumaltar, Airport, Panipokhari, Nagarkot, Khokana and Thankot). Analyzed data of the stations revealed the prevalence of "C' (humid mesothermal)as the major type of...
Deforestation and forest degradation are the second leading causes of global warming. Interest in the potential of avoided deforestation has been growing and solutions to the problems are currently being worked out through the development of proposed mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol (KP) called Reducing Emission Thorough Deforestation and Degradation (REDD). This paper argues that...
This study aims at reviewing the available literatures on the eco-physiological impacts of climate change on forest insect-pests and its hosts. Methodology adopted for preparing the paper is the critical review of literatures available in Copenhagen University's Life library databases. Withstanding with the global projections of climate change, Nepal will experience a noticeable rise in...
Global warming is a real, rapidly advancing, and widespread threat facing humanity this century. Climate change is expected to accelerate water cycles and thereby increase the available, renewable freshwater Recent observations suggest that at global scales, rapid environmental changes may be altering the structure, composition and dynamics of forests. Predicted global warming will...
The needs for advanced studies on impacts of climate change have been realised. In this study, the major focus is on changing climatic pattern and increasing natural hazards and its environmental consequences in Nepal. The climatic records of Nepal extend back to a relatively short period and may not adequately represent the range of natural climatic variability. Long term climatic data is...
The climate has always presented a challenge to those whose livelihoods depend on it. For poor people, a variable climate presents a risk that can critically restrict options and so limit development. This document looks at the risk assessment tools such as index insurance that can be used to help vulnerable people deal with climate change.
Index insurance, which can be applied...
Climate finance is becoming a dark curve on the road from Copenhagen to Cancún. Poorer nations fear that richer ones will fulfill the US$30 billion 'fast-start' climate finance promises made in the non-binding Copenhagen Accord by relabeling or diverting basic development aid, or by simply delivering on past climate finance pledges. The problem is simple: contributor countries are...
The report details the decisions adopted by the Conference of Parties at the thirteenth session, held in December 2007. This included:
- 1/CP.13 Bali Action Plan
- 2/CP.13 Reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries: approaches to stimulate action
- 3/CP.13 Development and transfer of technologies under the...
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