Climate Change

How trees and people can co-adapt to climate change: reducing vulnerability in multifunctional landscapes

This new book released by World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) on the sidelines of the Durban Climate Change Conference, focuses on the relationship between rural development and climate change mitigation and adaptation in the context of trees and agroforestry. It discusses the role of rewards for ecosystem services in improving livelihoods while enhancing carbon stocks.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2011
Meine Van Noordwijk, Minh Ha Hoang, Henry Neufeldt, & et al
World Agroforestry Centre
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Adaptation, Trees, Agroforestry, Asia, Africa, Ecosystem Services, Climate Mitigation, Carbon Market, Green House Gases
Forests

UN says world deforestation rate accelerating

The world’s deforestation rate has accelerated to 6.4 million hectares a year, the UN said on Wednesday in its most comprehensive survey yet, but Asia showed net gains due to extensive planting in

Publication Date: 
01/12/2011
New Age (Bangladesh)
Tags:
Forests, Deforestation, Asia, China, FAO, Environment, Food Security, Agriculture, Africa, South America, Remote Sensing, Russia, Brazil, Canada, India, Congo, Peru, Indonesia
Land

Land tenure challenges in managing carbon property rights to mitigate climate change

Scientific evidence suggests that increasing amounts of carbon in the atmosphere are causing climate change that will result in global warming, sea -level rise and more extreme weather events. In response to anthropogenic climate change, market-based mechanisms have been proposed to mitigate these rising carbon dioxide emissions. One of these mechanisms is known
as REDD (Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation). It works to prevent the loss of forests that play a key role in sequestering carbon and regulating the global climate.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2011
Grenville Barnes, Sheryl Quail
Land Tenure Journal
2
1-24
Tags:
Land Tenure, Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, REDD, Common Property Resources, Market Based Instruments, South America, Amazon, Africa, Cap And Trade, Carbon Sinks, Carbon Dioxide, Tropical Forests, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
Land

Land tenure and payment for environmental services - Challenges and opportunities for REDD+

This article highlights the land tenure implications of payment for environmental services (PES) mechanisms to reduce carbon emissions and enhance carbon sequestration, and offers suggestions for incorporating tenure into PES strategies.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2011
Anna Knox, Cynthia Caron, Jonathan Miner & et al
Land Tenure Journal
2
1-40
Tags:
Land Tenure, Legislation, India, Asia, Africa, Ecosystem Services, REDD, Climate Change, Conflicts, Carbon Sequestration, Common Property Resources, Land Resources
Climate Change

Increasingly Erratic Climate Menaces Africa's Cocoa

The weather may not always have been kind to cocoa farmers in West Africa, but until recently it was at least broadly predictable.

Publication Date: 
29/11/2011
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
Africa, Cocoa, Climate Impacts, Farmers, Scientists, Ghana, OECD, Green House Gases, COP 17 (Durban Summit), IPCC
Energy

EU move to gain energy from Arab deserts

Two major European consortiums joined forces on Thursday in an ambitious project to capture solar and wind energy across Arab deserts in order to power homes in Europe, North Africa and the Middle

Publication Date: 
25/11/2011
Dawn (Pakistan)
Tags:
Europe, Power Industry, Solar Energy, Wind Energy, Africa, Renewable Energy
Energy

Arab Spring A Short-Term Problem For Solar: Medgrid

Unrest in North Africa has set back in the short term ambitious plans to develop solar energy for use locally and in Europe, but for the longer term the region's abundant sunshine offers huge inves

Publication Date: 
25/11/2011
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
Solar Energy, Renewable Energy, Belgium, Europe, Africa, Germany, Wind Energy
Agriculture

Erratic Rains Threaten Southern Africa Food Output

Rainfall patterns in southern Africa are becoming erratic as climate change takes its toll, threatening long-term production of staple and cash crops in the region.

Publication Date: 
25/11/2011
Olivia Kumwenda
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
Rainfall, Africa, Climate Change, Agriculture, Cash Crops, Zambia, Food Security, Malawi, Floods, Farmers, Maize, Drought, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Deforestation
Health

New HIV cases down by 56% in India: UNAIDS

UNAIDS’s World AIDS Day report for 2011, which was released on Monday, revealed a dramatic decrease of 56 per cent between 1996 and 2010 in the number of new HIV infections in India.

Publication Date: 
22/11/2011
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
AIDS, India, Asia, Africa, WHO, National Aids Control Program
Health

One in every 4 children dies of pneumonia in Pakistan

Medical experts have said that pneumonia kills nearly two million children every year in the world under the age of five, while in Pakistan, one in every four children deaths are attributable to th

Publication Date: 
21/11/2011
Daily Times (Pakistan)
Tags:
Pakistan, Children, Health, Pneumonia, Developing Countries, AIDS, Child Health, South Asia, Africa, Tobacco, Indoor Air Pollution

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