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Much of South Africa is already arid or semi-arid and climate change is expected to increase temperatures and droughts and add to pressure on limited water supplies. Poor people will be hardest hit. The South African government has been commendably vocal in calling for rich countries to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Yet South Africa is also part of the problem as the largest emitter of...
Climate change does not happen in isolation. It interacts with existing problems and challenges – notably deforestation, soil degradation, declining food security, declining fish stocks – and makes them worse. Adaptation has to start with adaptation to the current climate.
The people of Uganda are highly susceptible to present climatic variations and shocks. Building...
Existing measures to promote peace in Afghanistan are not succeeding. This is not only due to the revival of the Taliban, but also because little has been done to try to ensure that families, communities, and tribes – the fundamental units of Afghan society – get on better with each other. War has fractured the social fabric of the country and, in the context of severe and...
Existing measures to promote peace in Afghanistan are not succeeding. This is not only due to the revival of the Taliban, but also because little has been done to try to ensure that families, communities, and tribes – the fundamental units of Afghan society – get on better with each other. War has fractured the social fabric of the country and, in the context of severe and...
There are major shortcomings in the pharmaceutical industry’s current initiatives to ensure that poor people have access to medicines. To shore up its own flagging economic performance, the industry is increasingly looking to the potentially huge markets within emerging economies. Yet, poor people who live in these countries still desperately lack affordable and appropriate medicines....
Existen serias deficiencias en las actuales iniciativas de las industria farmacéutica para garantizar el acceso de las poblaciones pobres a los medicamentos. Las compañías buscan en los mercados emergentes el modo de apuntalar unos resultados económicos cada vez más débiles. Sin embargo, estos países necesitan de forma desesperada medicamentos...
There is a basis for moving forward on negotiations to achieve emissions cuts:
- The ‘Bali roadmap’ process has been launched, aiming for a long term agreement on emissions cuts, including commitments by the US;
- Future actions by developing countries to reduce emissions are to be supported by scaling up finance, technology and...
The Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserve (KBR) is one of the latest additions to the protected areas network in the Indian Himalayan Region. Located in the picturesque state of Sikkim in the eastern Indian Himalayan Region with snow-clad mountain peaks, numerous glaciers, a snow- and glacier-fed stream network and high-altitude lakes, this biosphere reserve (BR) is named after the world’s...
Fulufjället, with an area of 385 km2, was recently designated Sweden’s 28th national park. This article describes how the park establishment process turned negative local opinion positive. The basis for success was a shift of focus from restrictions inside the boundaries of the national park to opportunities outside. This “inside-out process implies a new approach to area...
Two outstanding Australian conservation corridors have been established on public lands in southeastern Australia during 60 years of conservation land-use decisions. The Australian Alps conservation corridor straddles the Great Dividing Range and extends along natural protected area lands from central Victoria through southeastern New South Wales (NSW) to the Australian Capital Territory....
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