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China buoys climate talks with "binding" target

...floods, droughts and storms, said Bolivia's head of delegation Pablo Solon. "Is that not talking about genocide?" he asked, linking the deaths to U.S. Congress, which is unlikely to pass a climate bil...

6 Dec 2010

China buoys climate talks with "binding" target

News / Policy & Finance

India expects to break logjam in climate talks

...floods and heatwaves. "It also puts the U.S. on the hot seat for the money," Levi said. The United States, Norway and other rich countries agreed at last year's climate talks in Copenhagen to financin...

2 Dec 2010

India expects to break logjam in climate talks

News / Water

Jain Irrigation catches the eye of Harvard Business School

...flood irrigation and irregular use of fertilisers for Tatya who grows onions, banana, cotton and maize. But "micro-irrigation and fertigation has helped me raise the yield levels. The quality of the f...

30 Nov 2010

Jain Irrigation catches the eye of Harvard Business School

News / Carbon & Climate

A green solution or the dark side to cleaner coal?

...flood of imports that could last for decades.

14 Jun 2011

A green solution or the dark side to cleaner coal?

News / Food & Agriculture

Mahindra eyes micro irrigation with EPC acquisition

...flood irrigation which had low efficiency and led to the destruction of crops. Of India’s total arable land of 140 million hectare (ha), about half is rain-fed. Of the rest, about 4-5 million ha have ...

21 Feb 2011

Mahindra eyes micro irrigation with EPC acquisition

News / Water

Diverse water sources key to food security: report

...floods and heatwaves this century, caused by global warming. The report said that, despite a great expansion in irrigation in recent decades in Asia, around 66 percent of agriculture there is still de...

5 Sep 2010

Diverse water sources key to food security: report

News / Policy & Finance

Big powers talk climate, no grand deal sighted

...floods, rising seas and other damage. The negotiations were dealt another blow in July when the U.S. Senate failed to approve legislation to cap U.S. emissions. Replying to a reporter's question Tuesd...

22 Sep 2010

Big powers talk climate, no grand deal sighted

News / Green Buildings

Jakarta struggles to make green buildings

...flooding, an adequate garbage management system and automatic light switches and faucets. “We also have a green procedures checklist which adheres to GBCI’s standards for efficient electricity and wat...

16 Sep 2010

Jakarta struggles to make green buildings

News / Transport

Driving ambitions for electric vehicles in Philippines

...flooded streets -- a common hazard in the tropical city. The main roadblocks to electric vehicles won't be from commuters or drivers, says Constantino, but a lack of private enterprise and funding opp...

8 Dec 2010

Driving ambitions for electric vehicles in Philippines

News / Energy

Carbon emissions dip in 2009, to jump in 2010

...floods that could disrupt food supplies. The findings also show that in 2009 the global economy had slipped in terms of energy efficiency because of an increased share of fossil fuel CO2 emissions fro...

21 Nov 2010

Carbon emissions dip in 2009, to jump in 2010

Press Releases / Eco-Business

GEF and low-carbon cities of the future: The new town of Boughzoul Algeria

...floods and other natural disasters such as hurricanes. # About the Global Environment Facility The Global Environment Facility (GEF) unites 182 member governments — in partnership with international i...

7 Dec 2010

GEF and low-carbon cities of the future: The new town of Boughzoul Algeria

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Use the profit motive to fight climate change, by David Cameron

...floods in Pakistan, forest fires in Russia, mudslides in China. And yet over the same twelve months we’ve seen a growing despondency about international efforts to protect our planet. Copenhagen was a...

7 Dec 2010

Use the profit motive to fight climate change, by David Cameron

News / Food & Agriculture

Less water, but more rice

...flooded nurseries for up to 30 days before these are transplanted. There is usually no regular spacing between clumps of plants, and inundation of the field is a must. Weeding is done manually. By con...

29 Dec 2010

Less water, but more rice

News / Policy & Finance

China calls US a pig in the mirror on climate change

...floods and storms. The first phase of the Kyoto Protocol, the U.N.'s main weapon against climate change, ends in 2012 and what follows from 2013 is under contention. Greens say the Tianjin talks made ...

9 Oct 2010

China calls US a pig in the mirror on climate change

News / Carbon & Climate

Soaring temps cause mass coral killing in Indonesia: study

...flooding, that have hit many areas of the globe this year. Between April and late May, sea surface temperatures in the Andaman Sea rose to 34 degrees Celsius or about 4 degrees C above the long-term a...

18 Aug 2010

Soaring temps cause mass coral killing in Indonesia: study

News / Food & Agriculture

Kofi Annan calls for food stability, moderation on speculation

...floods and droughts once more in the headlines, "it is clear that there is nothing simple about reducing poverty and ensuring food security for today or for tomorrow." The world population, projected ...

19 Feb 2011

Kofi Annan calls for food stability, moderation on speculation

News / Policy & Finance

Financing said vital for world climate change deal

...floods to rising sea levels. Big emerging economies like China, India and Brazil say they should not be hog-tied by environmental rules unless the West -- which they blame for global warming -- helps ...

1 Sep 2010

Financing said vital for world climate change deal

News / Policy & Finance

U.N. urged to freeze climate geo-engineering projects

...floods and rising sea levels. Some countries regard geo-engineering projects costing billions of dollars as a way to control climate change by cutting the amount of sunlight hitting the earth or soaki...

21 Oct 2010

U.N. urged to freeze climate geo-engineering projects

News / Transport

Living on a platform

...floods and droughts. “We have either too much water or too little,” explains Yap Kheng Guan, a director of Singapore’s PUB. Even today, despite a sophisticated system of ditches and tunnels, floods ca...

4 Nov 2010

Living on a platform

News / Water

Analysis: Flood of money needed to fix China's water woes

China is now the world's second largest economy, but hundreds of millions of its people still rely on fouled water that will cost billions of dollars to clean. Growing cities, overuse of fertilizers, ...

15 Feb 2011

Analysis: Flood of money needed to fix China's water woes

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