The inventory and assessment of biodiversity resources have become essential for policy-making and management strategies as well as for developing and testing scientific hypotheses. There is an increasing need to compile mountain biodiversity databases and to make them available on-line.

As urbanization gathers pace in India, personal transport is among the priorities (for access and mobility), especially since mass transport is often not available or is of poor quality. To summarize, public transport and its clever use could bring us many advantages

REDD (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest
degradation) is based on a simple idea: pay developing countries
to reduce CO2 emissions from the forest sector. Nevertheless,
design and implementation of a REDD system raise many hard
questions: How are emissions reductions monitored, reported
and verified? How should REDD be financed? Should payments

WWF

The International Energy Agency (IEA) is developing in-depth indicators of energy use, efficiency trends and CO2 emissions. This latest publication provides a summary of the key results of the indicators work so far and shows how this can be used to identify the factors driving and restraining the demand for energy. Also explains why there are differences in energy intensities amongst countries.

This report, to support the implementation of UNDP's India country Programme Action Plan 2008-2012, is based on an assessment study on climate change adaptation activities in the country.

The Forests Rights Act 2006 is a result of long sustained peoples

This study comprehensively summarises the current status of transport biofuels and related technologies in the Australian context, to provide input to formulation of government policy development and to assist in guiding future research priorities.

Urban population growth does not always reflect urban economic growth or the expansion of employment opportunities, but population growth is propelling structural changes in urban economies, with major implications for urban poverty dynamics.

In light of an increasing focus on new demand-driven extension approaches that aim at accelerating the adoption of innovative technologies by smallholder farmers in developing countries, greater analysis is needed of the role of rural social networks and their impact on technology adoption.

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