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This (link below) is an educational game to teach people the challenges faced by farmers in Africa/India – I saw it posted by an economics PhD student recently ...
Post Date: 07-Oct-2012
International Environmental Negotiations Back Type: Course Date: 26 Nov - 07 Dec 2012 Duration ...
Post Date: 06-Oct-2012
CBA7: 7th international Conference 18th to 25th April, 2013 Dhaka, Bangladesh CLICK TO ENLARGE various What ...
Post Date: 06-Oct-2012
The new booklet published by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA ACP-EU) features 20 young people and three organizations, that have been involved in the CTA youth ...
Post Date: 06-Oct-2012
A new FIELD paper on “Loss and damage caused by climate change: legal strategies for vulnerable countries” by Joy Hyvarinen (available at http://www.field.org.uk/news/climate-damage-new-legal-strategies ) suggests that ...
Post Date: 06-Oct-2012
Vanuatu Government and World Bank launched USD3 Million project to improve disaster response for the 57000 people of Port Vila and Luganville.
Post Date: 03-Oct-2012
    27 September 2012: The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has released a publication, titled “Powerful Synergies: Gender Equality, Economic Development and Environmental ...
Post Date: 02-Oct-2012
Dear NAB IEC Colleagues,       http://www.spc.int/en/procurement-and-consultancy-opportunities/1007-request-for-proposal-development-of-a-picture-based-outreach-tool-kitresource-on-climate-change-for-the-education-sector.html   Under the above link you find a call for proposals for a consultancy by ...
Post Date: 01-Oct-2012
New report confirms hunger and malnutrition the human cost of inaction on climate change   New research showing that climate change is already contributing to around ...
Post Date: 28-Sep-2012
Dear Friends,   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq4ISAbyjk0   Weathering Climate Change is a short film that describes  WOTR’s Agro-Meteorology component of Climate Change Adaptation Project which combines locale-specific Met-advisories and Agro-advisories for ...
Post Date: 28-Sep-2012
FAO Outlines Lessons from Developing Climate-Smart Agriculture Strategies September 2012: As institutions and countries place attention on approaches to agriculture that meet climate ...
Post Date: 27-Sep-2012
With thanks to Dr. Mary Taylor and others please visit the link below for all the latest Land Resources Division (LRD) Climate Change Bulletin – our attempt to ...
Post Date: 27-Sep-2012
SPREP Launches Pacific Climate Change Portal 10 September 2012: The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) has launched the ...
Post Date: 18-Sep-2012
Green national accounting is how the value of nature in national accounting is estimated in practice.   At international level the WAVES project ...
Post Date: 18-Sep-2012
SUMMARY OF THE BANGKOK CLIMATE TALKS 30 August - 5 September 2012 | Bangkok, Thailand ...
Post Date: 11-Sep-2012
FOOD SECURITY: Africa is getting too hot for chocolate  (Monday, August 13, 2012) Mollie Bloudoff-Indelicato, E&E reporter Climate change could destroy West Africa's cocoa farms, disrupting domestic and ...
Post Date: 11-Sep-2012
Ensuring the safe movement of plant material Thursday, 06 September 2012 15:39   Apart from its core function of sustainable conservation of plant genetic ...
Post Date: 11-Sep-2012
FOOD PRICES IN A CHANGING CLIMATE Increased hunger is likely to be one of climate change’s most savage impacts on humanity. Greenhouse gas emissions are driving temperature increases, ...
Post Date: 10-Sep-2012
Loss and damage from climate change: After adaptation Saleemul Huq The climate talks under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bangkok ended on September 5 ...
Post Date: 10-Sep-2012
By Climate Central's Michael D. Lemonick: Forests cover some 30 percent of Earth’s surface, and it’s hard to overestimate how crucial they are to the functioning of the planet. ...
Post Date: 10-Sep-2012
SPC Convenes Training on Monitoring Adaptation of Coastal Fisheries 6 September 2012: The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), in collaboration with the French ...
Post Date: 08-Sep-2012
You are cordially invited to the fourth webinar of the WHO series on Climate Change and Health which will be discussing “Protecting health from climate change: Adaptation” ...
Post Date: 08-Sep-2012
Hurricane Link To Climate Change Explained Analysis by Kieran MulvaneyFri Sep 7, 2012 09:18 AM ET ...
Post Date: 08-Sep-2012
International Disaster and Risk Conference Focuses on Integrative Risk Management 31 August 2012: The International Disaster and Risk Conference (IDRC) 2012 convened in ...
Post Date: 08-Sep-2012