Central-Asia

Call for applications for the Asia-Pacific Graduates' Youth Forum on Green Economy, 25-29 September 2012, Kathmandu, Nepal

Call for applications for the Asia-Pacific Graduates' Youth Forum on Green Economy
25–29 September 2012, Kathmandu, Nepal

Through its Asia-Pacific Mountain Network (APMN), the ...

Contribution of Himalayan Ecosystems to Water, Energy, and Food Security in South Asia: A nexus approach

In the face of climatic and other socioeconomic changes, most South Asian countries having large and growing population, limited land resources, and increasing water stress face a common challenge of how to grow more food with the same or less land, less water, and increased energy prices. This concept paper seeks deeper understanding of the interlinkages among water, energy, and food, which is...

Side event at Rio+20: Pro-poor Payment for Ecosystems Services: global knowledge networking

The Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia is pleased to invite you to the side-event “Pro-poor Payment for Ecosystems Services: global knowledge networking”, which will be held during the Rio+20: United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, on 16 June 2012, 13:30-15:00, Room T-3, RioCentro - Rio-De Janeiro, Brazil.

According to the Zero Draft of 2012...

Side event at Rio+20: Pro-poor Payment for Ecosystems Services: global knowledge networking

Positions: Team Leader and Climate Adaptation Policy Specialist at CCD Of SDC India

The Global Programme on Climate Change (GPCC) of Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC) is based on common interests and shared investments and costs between India and Switzerland in the area of climate change viz. climate change adaptation (including food security and sustainable agriculture), climate resilient development, energy efficiency and renewable energy. The Swiss Agency for...

China’s Carbon Emission Trading : An Overview of Current Development

This report, published by SEI and the Swedish think tank FORES, examines China’s efforts to establish domestic carbon markets by 2015, building on seven regional pilots. (Recent mediareports...

Report of the individual review of the inventory submission of Turkey submitted in 2011*

The UNFCCC Secretariat has released the report of the centralized review of the 2011 annual submission of Turkey (FCCC/ARR/2011/TUR), which shows that total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions increased by 97.6% between 1990 and 2009.

The centralized review was undertaken by the Expert Review Team (ERT), which concluded that the preparation and reporting of Turkey’s inventory submission was...

Participate in the Rio+20 Dialogues online

In cooperation with UNDP, the Government of Brazil is inviting you to join and contribute to Rio+20 Dialogues on Sustainable Development.

Brazil is convening a Dialogue series with the aim of bringing together civil society, the scientific community and academia to contribute ideas and suggestions on sustainable development. Conclusions and recommendations from the...

Mountain Pavilion to be presented by Peru during RIO+20

With the collaboration of strategic international partners, the Government of Peru is leading the organization of the Mountain Pavilion at Rio+20. The initiative aims to showcase achievements and progress towards sustainable development in mountain regions to representatives of 191 countries and civil society present at the conference.

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Uniting people to protect the planet. Earth Hour 2012: Saturday 31st March, 8:30pm

From London to Sydney, New York and Singapore, people across the world will be joining WWF on 31st March 2012 to switch off their lights. It’s a reminder to us all that we only have one planet Earth. And it’s an urgent message that we want to reduce the impact our energy system has on that planet.

Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia when 2.2 million individuals and more than...

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