Climate Change

Jatropha biofuels in Dakatcha, Kenya - The climate consequences

This report summarises the findings of a study conducted by North Energy on behalf of Nature Kenya, RSPB, ActionAid, and BirdLife International. The study assesses the life?cycle greenhouse gas emissions from a proposed jatropha plantation in the Dakatcha woodlands, Kenya, that will mainly be used for biofuels in  the European market. 
 

Publication Date: 
02/03/2011
Action Aid
Tags:
Biofuel, Kenya, Climate Change, Green House Gases, Land Use, Europe, Biodiesel

Life cycle assessment of refined vegetable oil and biodiesel from Jatropha grown in Dakatcha Woodlands of Kenya

This project evaluates the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions associated with the proposed scheme to produce biofuels from jatropha cultivated in the Dakatcha woodlands by Kenya Jatropha Energy Ltd (100% owned by Nuove Iniziative Industrialisrl of Milan, Italy) for relevant uses in Kenya and Italy.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2011
N. D. Mortimer
North Energy Associates Limited
Tags:
Biodiesel, Biofuel, Kenya, Land Use, Italy, Europe, Climate Change, Green House Gases
Climate Change

Climate change in black and white

When air pollution hurts people

Publication Date: 
19/02/2011
Economist (London)
Tags:
Climate Change, Global Warming, Carbon Dioxide, UNEP, Kenya, Air Pollution, Green House Gases, Climate Science
Climate Change

Protecting environmentally displaced people: developing the capacity of legal and normative frameworks

Based on evidence collected in four exemplar countries – Kenya, Bangladesh, Ghana and Vietnam – the overall aim of the study is to investigate the capacity of national legal frameworks to protect and mediate the rights of people vulnerable to environmental displacement induced by climate change.

Publication Date: 
01/02/2011
Roger Zetter
Oxford Department of International Development
Tags:
Climate Change, Displacement, Migration, Environment, Kenya, Bangladesh, Ghana, Vietnam, India, Human Rights, Climate Impacts, Natural Disasters
Fisheries

Fisheries management makes coral reefs grow faster

Over fished reef systems have more sea urchins

Publication Date: 
20/01/2011
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Corals, Marine Life, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS India), California, Kenya
Health

Stagnant health technologies in Africa

In Madina village, outside Accra, Ghana, children tease each other about whose urine has a redder color. Apart from being strikingly thin, they look healthy. Yet they could be affected by Schistosoma haematobium, a parasitic disease common in Africa, where local prevalence rates can exceed 50%. Early diagnosis ensures inexpensive and effective treatment and prevents stunted growth and developmental disabilities in children and bladder cancer or other organ damage in adults (3).

Publication Date: 
10/12/2010
Ken Simiyu, Abdallah S. Daar, Peter A. Singer
Science
330
6010
1483-1484
Tags:
Health, Africa, Ghana, Medical Research, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Appropriate Technology, Medicinal Plants, Traditional Knowledge
Energy

Mapping out global biomass projections, technological developments and policy innovations

This report forms part of a project aiming to develop a South-South-North partnership to reshape the impact of a predicted large-scale expansion in global biomass energy use towards greater poverty reduction and maintenance of ecosystem services in developing countries.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2010
Mairi Black, Goetz M. Richter
IIED
Tags:
Biomass, India, Kenya, Malawi, Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Green House Gases, Energy
Wildlife

The political economy of wildlife conservation and decline in Kenya

Wildlife is the backbone of tourism in Kenya, one of the leading foreign exchange earners for the country. Although wildlife is declining, poverty among communities hosting this wildlife remains endemic.

Publication Date: 
30/11/2010
Ngeta Kabiri
Journal of Environment & Development
19
4
424
Tags:
Wildlife, Kenya, Wildlife Tourism, Cost Benefit Analysis, Poverty, Wildlife Management, Wildlife And People
Health

A quarter of total deaths from pneumonia among children occur in India: survey

Report reveals the need to reach target levels of coverage for life-saving interventions
India has the highest number of pneumonia-related deaths in the world
Only three countries reported coverage above the target level of 90 per cent for any vaccine

NEW DELHI: Pneumonia, which is the world's leading infectious killer among children, claims the lives of nearly 1.6 million children under five

Publication Date: 
18/11/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
India, Children, Pneumonia, UN, WHO, Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, China, Congo, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Uganda
Climate Change

Transmission intensity and drug resistance in malaria population dynamics: Implications for climate change

Although the spread of drug resistance and the influence of climate change on malaria are most often considered separately, these factors have the potential to interact through altered levels of transmission intensity.

Publication Date: 
25/10/2010
Yael Artzy-Randrup, David Alonso, Mercedes Pascual
PLoS ONE
5
10
1
Tags:
Climate Change, Malaria, Global Warming, Africa, Climate Impacts, Kenya

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