Leading scientists and experts in sustainable development call for urgent changes to tackle environmental crises and improve human well-being. The group – all past winners of the Blue Planet Prize – are challenging governments ahead of the Rio+20 Summit later this year to limit human-induced climate change, stop the loss of biodiversity and halt ecosystem degradation.
Interactive Map of Climate Change: New for Asia
Climate Change and Security: The Impending Threat
Green is Good: Arnold Schwarzenegger Tells it Like It Is
Dr Balgis Osman-Elasha: Co-Author of Report On How Climate Endangers Forests
There is no doubt Climate Change is changing our weather. But the effects could lead to increasing poverty, starvation, fewer industry jobs, less investment and increased danger from natural Hazards. Our edited extracts from the Global Assessment report: “Adaptation of Forests and People to Climate Change” from Dr. Balgis Osman-Elasha, lead author for International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) help explain the potential problems.
COP16: Asian Leaders Show Environmental Commitment at Cancun as West Hesitates – Again
Use the Profit Motive to Fight Climate Change
(An article contributed by the British Prime Minister David Cameron to the Observer on the climate change talks currently taking place in Cancun.)Over the past twelve months we’ve seen the devastation that unchecked climate change could bring – 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 disappointment for everyone who cares about climate change. Though some important steps were taken, simply not enough progress was made. But today, as the world looks to Cancun, I want to argue that everyone who cares about climate change should take heart – because I believe there are three clear reasons to have hope for the future.
Community-Based Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
Philippines: A Hotspot for Climate Change
Manila, the country’s capital, is the most vulnerable province when it comes to climate change. That’s according to Dr. Herminia A. Francisco, director of the Singapore-based Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA).
“In Southeast Asia, Manila ranks seventh,” Dr. Francisco told the participants of the climate change media workshop convened by the Philippine Network of Environmental Journalists, Inc.
In 2009, EEPSEA made a detailed mapping assessment of seven countries in Asia, namely: Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. The assessment studied 590 subnational areas comprising 341 districts in Indonesia, 19 provinces in Cambodia, 17 provinces in Laos, 14 states in Malaysia, 74 provinces in the Philippines, 72 provinces in Thailand, and 53 provinces in Vietnam.
COP 16: China Feels Heat of Climate Change Rifts
Climate Change Endangers Human Health
Rising Temperatures Threaten Food Security – Rice at Risk
Vietnam's Danang Adapts to Climate Change, From Boat Winches to Forest Restoration
Climate Change and Effects On The Philippines
Philippines braces for El Nino Phenomenon
Not too many Filipinos are aware that we are now experiencing the El Niño phenomenon, which will last until middle of 2010. This is the reason why the Department of Agriculture (DA) has already created a task force which would carry out mitigating measures to avert the adverse effects of the dry-spell on food production of the country.
Outcome of COP 15 in Copenhagen: A Review and Analysis
President Horta: Let's Have An Asian Climate Change Summit
The President of Timor Leste, Dr Jose Ramos-Horta told Gaia Discovery in an exclusive interview at his residence in Dili on 27 December 2009 that countries should get over the stalemate that strangled positive outcomes at the Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen in December 2009. He proposed having an Asian Climate Change Summit to focus on Asian issues and needs.
Reverse Global Climate Change with Adaptation, Sustainable Development, Solutions
A 40 chapter interactive multimedia disc of innovative, proven, cost-effective new technologies for integrated sustainable development, adaptation to rising temperature and sea level, and solutions for reversing global climate change was circulated to all United Nations Conference on Climate Change COP-15 delegations today.
Top Climate Scientists Set 40% Reduction of Carbon Emissions by 2020 for UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen
Top scientists have discovered that even a rise in temperature of 2°C will entail considerable hardships for poor and vulnerable people around the world, especially those living on low-lying islands and coasts. Joining the WWF recognised climate luminaries such as Sir John Houghton, former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) call for industrialised countries to make a commitment, at the UN Climate summit in Copenhagen, to cut carbon emissions by at least 40% below 1990 levels by 2020.
Philippine Coastal Villages Threatened By Sea Level Rise Due To Climate Change
The Philippines is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. IPCC estimated that sea levels might rise by between 18 centimeters and 59 centimeters in the coming century. The Philippines ranks fourth in the Global Climate Risk Index with 15 of 16 its regions vulnerable to sea level rise.