Nitrous oxide and methane: the forgotten gases in the forests and climate change debate
5 October 2012Source: Responding to Climate Change - Policy makers seeking to reduce greenhouse gases from deforestation cannot ignore the levels of nitrous (…)
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India can meet its energy needs without nuclear plants: Study
4 October 2012Source: Hindustan Times - India’s energy needs can be met entirely by solar and other renewable sources, says a new study by two professors at the (…)
U.N. climate chief urges greater ambition in Doha
4 October 2012Source: Reuters - The U.N. climate chief said Monday that countries have not backed off what they had agreed in climate talks in Durban last year (…)
Ministers of small island nations warn about impact of climate change
2 October 20121 October 2012 – Caribbean ministers at the United Nations General Assembly today called on Member States to pay attention to the devastating (…)
Addressing UN debate, ministers of small island nations warn about impact of climate change
2 October 2012Source: UN News Centre - Caribbean ministers at the United Nations General Assembly today called on Member States to pay attention to the (…)
UN official: Climate skeptics are losing
2 October 2012Source: The Hill - Christiana Figueres, the United Nations’ top climate change official, expressed optimism Monday that skepticism of scientific (…)
Ocean acidification emerges as new climate threat
1 October 2012Source: Washington Post - Kris Holderied, who directs the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Kasitsna Bay Laboratory, says the (…)
Mozambique: NGO Calls for Dams to Take Climate Change Into Account
1 October 2012Source: AllAfrica - The international non-governmental organisation International Rivers has called for the effects of climate change to be taken (…)
Energy minister unveils measures to ease pressure on energy sector
1 October 2012Source: Zawya - Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Alaa Batayneh on Sunday unveiled a package of measures to boost local energy sources to (…)
One of Africa’s Largest Solar Plants in Development
28 September 2012Source: Cleantechnica - A 50-MW solar power plant is in the planning stages for Garissa in the northern region of Kenya. It will be one of the (…)
EU wind capacity hits 100 gigawatt mark: industry
28 September 2012Source: Reuters - Installed EU wind capacity has reached the 100 gigawatt mark - the equivalent of power generated from 39 nuclear plants or a (…)
Caribbean Islands Brace for Challenges of Climate Change
28 September 2012Source: IPS - Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas remembers how quiet – even uneventful – this tiny twin-island federation was for the first four (…)