This paper presents an empirical analysis of the impact of climate change on food production in a typical low-income developing country. Furthermore, it provides an estimation of the determinants of adaptation to climate change and the implications of these strategies on farm productivity. The analysis relies on primary data from 1,000 farms producing cereal crops in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia.

Minor progress in Poland on adaptation and deforestation sets the stage for Copenhagen in 2009.

SHARED VISION   Bali Action Plan 1a

Mary Robinson, Margot Wallstr

Jyoti Parikh / New Delhi December 10, 2008, 0:55 IST

A liability framework for adaptation funds should be set up by linking payments with emissions.

This paper provides a conceptual backdrop for urban economic impact assessment of climate change and its specific aim is to provide both a conceptual and a methodological framework for OECD

International proposals to protect forests as a way of tackling climate change could displace millions of indigenous people and fail to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, environmentalists warn.

This study sought to identify the initial impact that a global Cap and Share scheme might have on India, based on a set of limiting assumptions. In particular, it attempts to quantify the immediate impact

Priscilla Jebaraj

POZNAN: The mood at the United Nations climate change talks here seem to reflect the weather.

Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi December 03, 2008, 1:25 IST

The global climate change talks, the latest round of which started yesterday at Poznan in Poland under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), are already confronting first of their failures since the participating countries chalked out the Bali roadmap in December 2007.

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