Recognizing that climate change represents an urgent and potentially irreversible threat to human societies and the planet and thus requires to be urgently addressed by all Parties, and acknowledging that the global nature of climate change calls for the widest possible cooperation by all countries and their participation in an effective and app

This new McKinsey report examines how the world's growing demand for natural resources can be met. It also looks at how policymakers need to change their approach to resource management to avoid the risk that enter a period of resource price spikes.

This Greepeace report is a documentation of 10 successful case studies from across India on how communities and individuals have used decentralised renewable energy to energise and empower their lives.

Climate change poses a major challenge to agriculture. Rising temperatures will change crop growing seasons. And changing rainfall patterns will affect yield potentials. Underinvestment over the past 20 years has left the agricultural sector in many developing countries ill-prepared for the changes ahead.

The National Mission for Sustainable Habitat was approved by the Prime Minister’s Council for Climate Change in June 2010. One of the deliverables of the Mission is the formulation of National Sustainable Habitat Standards.

This new UNCTAD report focuses on the role of renewable energy technologies in responding to the dual challenge of reducing energy poverty while mitigating climate change particularly in the context of developing countries.

The act to provide for the establishment of the Himachal Pradesh Water Regulatory Authority to regulate water resources within the state, facilitate and ensure judicious, equitable and sustainable management, allocation and optimal utilization of water resources for sustainable development of the state.

More than 710,000 people died as a direct consequence of 14,000 extreme weather events, and losses of more than USD 2.3 trillion occurred from 1991 to 2010 globally reveals the Global Cimate Risk Index 2012.

Private-sector finance has been widely embraced as an important part of efforts to scale up resources for developing countries to respond to climate change. Yet there has been very little analysis of what private finance means for developing countries, and whether it will really deliver what is intended.

This paper examines the effectiveness of additionality and sustainability criteria being applied to hydropower projects applying for carbon crediting under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).