The World Bank Institute and Forest Carbon Partnership Facility have released a manual for assessing the true costs of REDD+ action aimed at saving and restoring forests.

Climate change and the resulting rise in sea level would affect water sector infrastructure, such as surface water supply and urban drainage systems. The climate resilience of such infrastructure should then be made more climate-resilient to optimize its expected benefits.

IGES (Institute for Global Environmental Strategies), in corporation with TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute), started CDM capacity building activities in India in 2003, one of which is conducting consultations with project proponents in the cement sector to assist in their project development.

The specter of high commodity prices has recently reemerged, with global food prices registering a new peak in February 2011, triggered mainly by production shortfalls due to bad weather. The 30% hike in international food prices has translated to an average domestic food price inflation in developing Asia of about 10%.

This Report comes to the conclusion that India’s economic growth
momentum cannot be sustained if urbanisation is not actively facilitated. Nor
can poverty be addressed if the needs of the urban poor are isolated from the
broader challenges of managing urbanisation. Cities will have to become the

Antibiotic resistance is a stark reality across the globe, including in India. The challenges associated with controlling antibiotic resistance,  particularly in India, are many and multifaceted. On one hand, antibiotics are necessary in many life-threatening cases. On the other hand, overuse of antibiotics can be disastrous in the long run.

The Compendium on Capacity for Implementing Land Based Mitigation has been produced in response to an identified demand from Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and other country officials for greater information on national policy contexts regarding the inclusion of land in the
climate change solution.
 

As this assessment will show, an extraordinary amount of time, effort and resources have been dedicated to pursuing land based solutions to climate change by both developing and developed countries across the globe. Progress has been made in building capacity and readiness, tools and techniques and principles and partnerships.

There is a growing concern that wind generation may not be able to deliver the contribution which has been predicted and used in government projection assumptions. Several studies have indicated that output is often less than anticipated or was claimed, at the planning stage of development. Every wind

In Bangladesh, urban poverty is neglected in research, policy and action on poverty reduction. This paper explores the underlying foundations for this relative neglect, including national identity and image, the political economy of urban poverty, and the structuring of knowledge creation.

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