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News / Carbon & Climate

India’s new climate model works best for South Asia

...floods and found a need for fine-tuning climate models to simulate hydro-climatic variables at the South Asia regional level. “Human knowledge about the climate system is still inadequate and we need...

2 Mar 2016

India’s new climate model works best for South Asia

News / Water

Flooding from dam washes out homes, rice fields in Southern Cambodia

...flooding because it had to open the floodgates of the facility's dam, said Chhouk district governor Ouk Lay. “The company had informed us to evacuate villagers to a safe zone,” he told RFA’s Khmer Se...

17 Sep 2015

Flooding from dam washes out homes, rice fields in Southern Cambodia

News / Carbon & Climate

Cut carbon emissions by a quarter more, urges UNEP

...floods, storms, loss of life, agriculture and the displacement of people. Need to do better The report was explicit in its message that countries need to accelerate action before 2020 in order for 203...

4 Nov 2016

Cut carbon emissions by a quarter more, urges UNEP

News / Policy & Finance

Myanmar's logging ban feeds shadow economy of illegal trade

...floods and landslides which are exacerbated by deforestation. The country lost 546,000 hectares of forest on average each year between 2010 and 2015, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) s...

2 Nov 2016

Myanmar's logging ban feeds shadow economy of illegal trade

News / Energy

Pakistan races to tap virgin coal fields to meet energy crunch

...floods to accelerating sea level rise. "Surely the indications are that the time may not be far when ... countries not following the green energy path would be penalised. Our long term planning should...

28 Feb 2017

Pakistan races to tap virgin coal fields to meet energy crunch

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

APP uninvites selected press from visiting controversial mill

...flooding had made access to a village near the mill impossible, they said. APP had wanted to showcase the village as an example of how a community engagement project was working to change the culture ...

27 Feb 2017

APP uninvites selected press from visiting controversial mill

News / Water

Cities and experimentation are central to water sustainability

...flooding and the contamination of drinking water on an even shorter timescale than expected due to land subsidence from pumping out too much groundwater. Two global agreements in the past year do offe...

30 Nov 2016

Cities and experimentation are central to water sustainability

News / Food & Agriculture

New agri-business alliance to tackle hunger and food security

...flood. “ There’s no way forward without a shared understanding of the challenges and objectives. The GAA is a promising starting point. Anna Simpson, Forum for the Future The sector also accounts fo...

30 Nov 2016

New agri-business alliance to tackle hunger and food security

News / Water

Keeping the Yellow River flowing

...floods. In 1999, the YRCC was tasked to manage the lower Yellow River and to mitigate the devastating effects of the destructive droughts and floods. “It was a huge task,” says YRCC. “Our water manage...

6 Oct 2015

Keeping the Yellow River flowing

Opinion / Policy & Finance

The arc of climate justice

...floods that damaged buildings, destroyed crops, swept away bridges, and killed 238 people. Such weather-related tragedies are not new to Pakistan; what’s different is their frequency and ferocity. Dea...

26 Nov 2015

The arc of climate justice

News / Water

Sandmining is destroying Asia’s rivers

...floods downstream. The situation is similar across the the Jhelum river (in Punjab), and the Neelum and the Kunhar rivers (in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), according to Vaqar Zakaria, an environmental flow spe...

8 May 2017

Sandmining is destroying Asia’s rivers

News / Policy & Finance

Marrakesh summit ends without funds deal

...floods, storms, sea level rise and other impacts of climate change. Most of the initiatives were through bilateral or country-group projects between developed and developing nations, state and city go...

21 Nov 2016

Marrakesh summit ends without funds deal

News / Energy

Hemmed in by Mekong dams

...flood plains. That’s why we wanted to flag it because the impact goes far beyond what is usually recognised.” One of the biggest issues with the dams is that “you basically alter the ecosystem and ob...

18 Mar 2016

Hemmed in by Mekong dams

News / Carbon & Climate

UN counts climate’s human cost

...floods, storms, heatwaves, droughts and other climatic events that meet the UN definition of a disaster − that is, they killed people, displaced communities, or caused damage calculated in millions. B...

30 Nov 2015

UN counts climate’s human cost

Opinion / Water

How to avert an urban drought in Asia

...floods make it less available. Urban water security can be improved through better use of existing water stocks before plans are made to further increase supply. Water utilities can implement pricing ...

17 Jan 2017

How to avert an urban drought in Asia

News / Carbon & Climate

Pakistan’s new plan to embrace floods

...flood early warning system and restricting development in floodplain zones. Such measures have been missing from Pakistan’s flood management strategy so far. At first, Nasir’s new approach to floods w...

31 Jul 2015

Pakistan’s new plan to embrace floods

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The next phase of climate action

...floods and droughts. Africa is paying a particularly heavy price. Though the continent is responsible for only 4 per cent of greenhouse-gas emissions, it is suffering more than any other continent fro...

13 Feb 2017

The next phase of climate action

News / Carbon & Climate

Fossil fuel majors ignore climate crisis

...floods in Louisiana. There is some good news, though. “We know what to do and how to do it – we can transform the energy infrastructure,” McKibben said. Fossil fuel extraction But he stressed that it ...

29 Sep 2016

Fossil fuel majors ignore climate crisis

News / Policy & Finance

India faces trillion-dollar climate squeeze

The floods that have devastated the state of Tamil Nadu are a stark reminder that while India’s priority is development, it also needs to spend prodigious sums on adaptation to climate change. A study...

9 Dec 2015

India faces trillion-dollar climate squeeze

News / Carbon & Climate

Paris climate targets to cost Asia $300 billion a year, but will help save lives - research

...flooding. The Manila-based bank's definition of developing Asia comprises 45 of the ADB's member countries in Asia Pacific including Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. "ADB estimates th...

28 Sep 2016

Paris climate targets to cost Asia $300 billion a year, but will help save lives - research