climate change
By: Jennifer Phelps
Mountainous ecosystems are particularly sensitive to the effects of climate change. Rising temperatures in mountainous climates, the melting of glaciers and early disappearance of winter snowfall during the spring, are often regarded as significant and ominous indicators of dramatic changes which are likely to play an important role in our future world....
This webinar took place on Friday February 15 as a warm-up towards the Climate Change M&E panel discussions at the South Asian Evaluation Conclave 2013 taking place in Kathmandu February 26 – March 1, this webinar...
The Mongolian University of Science and Technology (MUST) and the Ministry of Environment and Green Development (MEGD) organize the International Conference on Climate Change in Arid and Semi-Arid Region, which will be hosted from September 19 to 21, 2013, at the Mongolian University of Science and Technology in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
The main theme of this International Conference is...
A new book, "Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change" predicts a grim future for billions of people in this century. It is a factual account of a staggering human toll, based on hard data. Author Andrew Guzman, an authority on international law and economics, is a professor and associate dean at UC Berkeley School of Law.
Guzman has studied intractable economic...
The Climate Service Center and the University of Hamburg are jointly organizing “The Hamburg Conference: Actions for Climate Induced Migration”, to be be held in Hamburg on July 16th -18th 2013.
http://www.climate-service-center.de/035152/index_0035152.html.de
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MRI in the Americas (TCA) is organizing a session titled, "Networks for sustainable monitoring of global environmental change", as part of the at the AGU Americas Meeting, 14-17 May 2013, an event that brings together a...
The World Development Report 2012 has established that gender equality is smart economic policy. Background papers explore the linkages between energy, gender and development.
The UN Secretary-General has launched the Sustainable Energy for All initiative to ensure universal access to modern energy services, double the rate of improvement in energy efficiency and double the share of...
Bringing Climate Finance to Grassroots Women – What does it take?
WHEN: Sunday, June 17th, from 5:30 – 7 pm
WHERE: UN2, Barra Arena, Rio de...
CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. We place special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. Women are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of disease, increase access to clean...
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