This study shows that the biggest climate offenders are in fact the richest countries in the world, while low and middle income countries suffer from the effects. With the failure of climate talks at Cancun, the role of the World Bank as manager of funds for climate change adaptation and resilience funds has emerged.

The deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is 2015--only 4 years ahead. Although much progress has been made, much more has yet to be made. The same is true also for Bangladesh. The report summarizes the current global status of the health-related MDGs.

This Annual Report of the carbonn Cities Climate Registry (cCCR) presented to the 17th Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC, the UN Climate Secretariat and the global climate community assembled in Durban, reflects the determination of cities worldwide to pursue their climate policies and actions with transparency and accountability.

The report highlights the emerging landscape in India and key development challenges that face the country. In doing so it aims to identify key areas that can contribute to transformational change that empower people and build an inclusive, climate-resilient, sustainable development paradigm for 2013-17 and beyond.

In this study, GNESD Centres in Africa, Asia and Latin America have analyzed biomass resource potential, energy policies promoting the deployment of bioenergy and how bioenergy can be effectively employed in bringing about rural development and poverty alleviation in eighteen countries across the globe.

The FAO Disaster Risk Reduction for Food and Nutrition Security Framework Programme aims to provide strategic direction to the implementation of disaster risk reduction measures in member countries across the agricultural-related sectors — in line with the Hyogo Framework for Action and its five priorities for action.

The Ernst & Young country attractiveness indices (CAI) provide scores for national renewable energy markets, renewable energy infrastructures and their suitability for individual technologies. The indices provide scores out of 100 and are updated on a quarterly basis.

Natural hazards are no strangers to a majority of South Asians. The region is periodically afflicted by inundated deltas, parched plains, flooded urban sprawl, severe droughts, cyclone-hit crops, and eroding beaches and riverbanks. South Asia experiences every conceivable weather-related disaster.

Realizing the pivotal role of irrigation in increasing agricultural production and productivity, Nepalese farmers have been traditionally investing in development and expansion of their irrigation systems.

Taking cognizance of various news and complaint received on the alarming issue of child labour in coalmines of Meghalaya in general and Jaintia Hills in particular, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights deputed a team to visit Meghalaya from 16 - 19 October 2011.