This climate adaptation booklet highlights the sector and geo-climatic impacts of climate change, and the development challenges facing the Asia-Pacific region.
A G20 summit next week will test leading countries' appetite to fight climate change after spending trillions bailing out banks and shoring up the global economy.
The April 2 meeting in London of leaders of major developed and emerging economies aims to battle a financial crisis.
Mumbai The closure of the 25-year-old dumping ground at Gorai creek in Borivli has earned the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation Rs 27 crore by trade of an estimated 31,033 tonnes of carbon credits a year. The Asian Development Bank has agreed to purchase the carbon credits from the civic body at a cost of 12 Euros per carbon credit till 2014 and has made the payment for 50 per cent.
A decline in industrial production in the European economies has led to a fall in carbon credit prices by more than 58 per cent in the last eight months.
As negotiations accelerate in the lead-up to the Copenhagen climate change conference in December, trade-related issues have emerged as key elements of the discussions.
This report seeks to inform critical questions with regard to policy mixes of investments in adaptation and mitigation, and how they might vary over time.
The climate change debate raises the issue of often identified, but as yet little explored, requirement to incorporate climate policy into other policy sectors, often termed climate
