Electric vehicles are not a mitigation option unless electricity is cleaned up and these together with smart grids & renewables can provide a solution for this says P R Shukla in this paper presented at the Development and Mitigation forum held at Cape Town from 27-29 January 2014. Read full text.

The new guidebook published by UNEP Risø Centre focuses on the meaning of "low carbon" in the context of long-term global climate stabilization target, low carbon scenarios with alternate development pathways to achieve these scenarios and the role of low carbon development in India.

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) Project has released a guidebook titled “Technologies for Climate Change Mitigation: Agriculture Sector.” The guidebook describes crop and livestock management technologies and practices that contribute to climate change mitigation while improving crop productivity and reducin