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Can Nepali coffee survive impacts of climate change?

Ramesh Adhikari’s home in Jaisithok, Kavre, a hilly settlement around 60 kilometres east of Kathmandu, was razed to the ground during the 2015 earthquake. While Adhikari is rebuilding after the natura...

15 Jan 2018

Can Nepali coffee survive impacts of climate change?

News / Carbon & Climate

Sizing up livestock farming’s carbon footprint

A new and interactive tool released by FAO allows farmers, policy makers and scientists to calculate meat, milk and eggs production as well as greenhouse-gas emissions from livestock to make the secto...

2 Sep 2016

Sizing up livestock farming’s carbon footprint

News / Carbon & Climate

Highlights: Day two at the 1.5C conference on climate change in Oxford

...carbon-neutral society could look like and some of the remaining research challenges. One of the most prominent is how to tackle the hard-to-eliminate emissions – or “decarbonisation bottlenecks” – in...

23 Sep 2016

Highlights: Day two at the 1.5C conference on climate change in Oxford

News / Food & Agriculture

Governments must do more to help end deforestation in commodities supply chains

...Carbon Disclosure Project) found that just 42 per cent of the companies surveyed by the group had analysed their supply chains to determine how the availability or quality of sustainably produced raw ...

13 Apr 2017

Governments must do more to help end deforestation in commodities supply chains

News / Carbon & Climate

Warming Arctic creates GHG danger zone

...carbon release from permafrost, but that changes in soil moisture conditions have an even greater effect. Christina Schädel, ecosystem scientist, Northern Arizona University Carbon feedback They foun...

28 Jun 2016

Warming Arctic creates GHG danger zone

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change may turn Africa's arid Sahel green - researchers

One of Africa's driest regions - the Sahel - could turn greener if the planet warms more than 2 degrees Celsius and triggers more frequent heavy rainfall, scientists said on Wednesday. The Sahel stret...

17 Jul 2017

Climate change may turn Africa's arid Sahel green - researchers

News / Carbon & Climate

Buildings, transport must help ensure emissions ‘turning point’ by 2020, new initiative warns

...carbonise buildings and infrastructure by 2050”. As for transport, the campaign calls for zero-emissions vehicles to be “the preferred form of all mobility in the world’s major cities and transport ro...

12 Apr 2017

Buildings, transport must help ensure emissions ‘turning point’ by 2020, new initiative warns

Deer Island Wastewater Treatment Plant number 2 in Winthrop, Massachusetts, USA

Opinion / Water

How recycled water could revolutionise sustainable development

...carbon and nutrients and – if collected and treated properly – it could provide new water, fertiliser, and energy. A number of nations and major cities have already built sophisticated waste water tre...

22 Mar 2017

How recycled water could revolutionise sustainable development

News / Carbon & Climate

UK must not cool stance on global warming

...carbon emissions in the UK and globally. The world-renowned cosmologist and astrophysicist will join a panel debate on 16 March, following a series of three talks starting on 23 February. The talks wi...

6 Feb 2017

UK must not cool stance on global warming

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate deal struck to curb ‘super greenhouse gases’

Representatives from more than 170 countries agreed to limit and eventually stop all uses of HFCs, or hydrofluorocarbons – climate change-exacerbating chemicals commonly used in refrigerators and air ...

17 Oct 2016

Climate deal struck to curb ‘super greenhouse gases’

News / Cities

Cities must lure private dollars fast to meet climate goals

...carbon transport, buildings and other infrastructure, the group says. Even more is needed worldwide to keep global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, as agreed under ...

10 Apr 2017

Cities must lure private dollars fast to meet climate goals

News / Carbon & Climate

Trump climate pullout will help child traffickers - Nobel Laureate

The world's poorest children are at greater risk of trafficking and slavery if the United States goes ahead with its plan to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi sa...

9 Jun 2017

Trump climate pullout will help child traffickers - Nobel Laureate

News / Energy

Barack Obama: Clean energy is here to stay

...carbon dioxide emissions from the energy sector fell by 9.5 per cent, an outcome that “should put to rest the argument that combating climate change requires accepting lower growth or a lower standard...

11 Jan 2017

Barack Obama: Clean energy is here to stay

News / Food & Agriculture

Climate change will impact Philippines' ability to feed its people

Climate change is altering production systems and compromising food security and nutrition for millions of people in the Philippines, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization ...

17 Oct 2017

Climate change will impact Philippines' ability to feed its people

News / Carbon & Climate

All the sustainable ladies: 10 women who will inspire you

...carbon society. 5. Patricia Espinosa, executive secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Image: UNFCCC Flickr, CC BY 2.0 A career diplomat and politician, Mexico's Patricia...

6 Mar 2017

All the sustainable ladies: 10 women who will inspire you

Sundarban women in Bangladesh sell reed mats

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Nature: the decisive solution for the climate change crisis

...carbon emissions. The second is climate change adaptation, like Promila’s story above, which refers to increasing our capacity to address the adverse impacts of climate change. At IUCN, we believe tha...

2 Jan 2017

Nature: the decisive solution for the climate change crisis

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Asia and the Pacific must spearhead a climate resilient future

...carbon growth. Many countries have articulated their adaptation needs including more resilient infrastructure and climate-smart agriculture. They will need support from development partners to build r...

8 Sep 2016

Asia and the Pacific must spearhead a climate resilient future

News / Manufacturing

Can cement clean up its act?

...Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology as its insurance against future curbs on carbon. CCS is an umbrella term for a range of methods to suck carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at the point of s...

17 Jun 2016

Can cement clean up its act?

News / Energy

Europe’s nuclear club slows emissions cuts

...carbon emissions than those that have rejected the technology. Europe has a higher concentration of nuclear power plants for its population than anywhere else in the world, although many of the Europe...

7 Sep 2016

Europe’s nuclear club slows emissions cuts

News / Food & Agriculture

Indonesia study disputes UN data on peat fire emissions

...carbon emissions would be 19 per cent less than previously stated,” he says, adding it would be crucial to correct the country’s status as the world’s third largest carbon emitter because of forest an...

25 Jul 2016

Indonesia study disputes UN data on peat fire emissions

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