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Climate change measures crucial for Asia-Pacific: UN

UN experts warned Tuesday that Asia-Pacific nations and other developing countries need support to combat climate change as they face an intensification of extreme weather such as the Philippine floods. The comments came as a divide between rich and ...

Investors Ready for Forest Carbon Market, if Copenhagen and Countries ...

Bangkok, Thailand, Sep. 29 /CSRwire/ - A survey of investors with approximately US$7 trillion of assets under management has shown significant support for an expanded carbon market mechanism which would address the estimated 20 percent of global carbon emissions due to deforestation and forest degradation.

But the 2009 Forest Carbon Investor Survey, conducted by the Brunswick Group on behalf of the WWF Forest Carbon Initiative, found investors looking for initial public financing viable policy frameworks, and more certainty from both international agreements and national legislation... Read more..

Investors eye forest CO2 market, climate pact key: poll

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India ranked ninth in world tree planting

New York: India has been ranked ninth in the tree planting roll of honour in a campaign to plant a billion trees, which was launched by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in November 2006.

The country has registered 96 million trees.

Under this plan, civil society and governments are asked to register the number of trees that have been planted in their respective countries. So far, 167 countries have participated in this programme.

The initial target set by the UNEP was to plant at least one billion trees worldwide each year. The billionth tree was an... Read more..

UN warns leaders time running out for climate deal

Sep 28th, 2009 | BANGKOK -- The United Nations on Monday warned world leaders they have only 70 days to reach a new deal to limit global warming, while environmentalists pointed to the deadly floods in the Philippines to illustrate the already devastating impact of climate change.
Only hours after negotiations began, rich and poor nations were already flinging their usual rebukes at one another for failing to do their part to reach a deal to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.
Talks have been deadlocked for months over the industrial countries' refusal to commit... Read more..

Climate change mitigation strategies ignore carbon cycling processes ...

Washington, September 28 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have said that current international strategies to mitigate manmade carbon emissions and address climate change have overlooked the carbon cycling processes of inland waters. The research was carried out by scientists from the University of Vienna, Uppsala University in Sweden, University of Antwerp, and the US based Stroud Water Research Center.

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Costly Carbon Cuts

COPENHAGEN -- In speech after rousing speech at the United Nations summit on global warming last week, politicians emphasized the need to protect the world's most vulnerable, who will be hit hardest by climate change. The rhetoric did little to ...

India to launch energy efficiency schemes

India plans to launch a domestic energy efficiency trading scheme as part of its efforts to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and combat climate change.Jairam Ramesh, the environment minister, said the ruling Congress party would make amendments to the Energy Conservation Act in the coming months to create a financial mechanism that would help put India on a par with some of the world's most energy efficient economies.

India ready for global scrutiny on emissions

NEW DELHI: India has once again
dramatically shifted position on its international climate change policy. The
Indian government has said it could agree to international review and reporting
of its domestic, voluntary and self-funded actions on greenhouse gas emission
reductions along the lines of IMF conducting `surveillance' on monetary issues
and WTO monitoring trade policies of member countries.

Till recently,
India had insisted that it would only allow international scrutiny of those
actions which were funded by industrialised countries... Read more..

India may use UNFCCC to sidestep G-20 pressure

New Delhi: India is likely to utilize the principles of a broad-based forum such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to sidestep the possibility of being locked into unwanted positions at an elite grouping such as the Group of Twenty (G-20) whose members meet later this week.Laying ground: A 4 September photo of a Bric nations press conference during the G-20 finance ministers meeting in London. (from left) Pranab Mukherjee of India, Guido Mantega of Brazil, Xie Xuren of China and Alexei Kudrin of Russia. Simon Dawson / BloombergIn the runup to Prime... Read more..

G20 hasn't fixed money to fight climate change: NGOs

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SOUTH ASIA: Eight Nations Unite to Combat Climate Change

DHAKA, Jul 8 (IPS) - As rising seas, melting glaciers, floods and cyclones are increasingly putting millions of people at risk in South Asia, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) met here last week to find ways to mitigate the ...