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2 September 2010
Neighbourly action in Pakistan's Charsadda district prevented the floods from being an even greater disaster. But what trouble does climate change spell for the region's future?
27 July 2010
A bicycle wheel, an assortment of mirrors and a ball of string seem unlikely components for a piece of cutting edge green technology. But this unwieldy-looking ‘solar concentrator' is the latest product of a renewable energy revolution spreading across Kenya.
14 June 2010
A new study predicts the effects of climate change will reduce Ethiopia's economic growth and widen the gap between the country's poorest and richest people by 20 per cent.
11 June 2010
Close to 45 of the 53 countries that make up the African Union arrived at the latest round of climate talks in Bonn having signed the much criticised Copenhagen Accord. But not Sudan, Zimbabwe, Niger, Cameroon, Sao Tome & Principe, Equatorial Guinea and Egypt.
11 June 2010
The Bonn climate change talks have so far been marked by a tip-toeing diplomacy as countries attempt to re-build trust and dilute the bitterness caused by the failure of the Copenhagen summit. So the remarks of Qumrul Chowdhury, the principal negotiator for the G77 and lead coordinator for the least developed countries block (LDC), were all the more striking.
11 June 2010
This meeting in Bonn comes at a critical time. As widely reported, the failed Copenhagen talks meant this latest round of negotiations was characterised by suspicion and mistrust between wealthy and developing nations. But developing nations, at least from where I'm sitting, seem to be showing a united front...
11 June 2010
The UN's climate change negotiations can be dreadfully stuffy talk shops to outsiders but for one group of young people they're totally gripping. For the last year 13 students from counties around the world have been shadowing negotiators from their home countries at these events.
4 June 2010
In Rwanda a conservationist realised that the only way to stop poachers would be to offer them an alternative to poaching. So he helped them to become gamekeepers.
19 May 2010
Indian car sales are booming thanks to easy credit and cheap manufacturing. But who is counting the environmental cost?
17 May 2010
More than 500 million people rely on fishing to make a living yet there is little information about how their livelihoods are affected by climate change, according to researchers in Malaysia. A new report by the World Fish Center in Penang, Malaysia, now aims to fill this research gap.
22 March 2010
In Uganda bananas are helping to cushion families against unexpected weather changes providing a source of carbohydrates throughout the year. But they're not always easy to grow, with the drought forcing people to mulch and compost more than before.
18 March 2010
The race for the UN's top climate change post is heating up with calls for it to go to a candidate from a developing country. Alongside South Africa, frontrunners include India and Indonesia. Environmental journalists Pierre Fitter in Delhi and Harry Surjadi in Jakarta weigh up the candidates' chances.
9 March 2010
An Observer investigation, shared with Panos London as part of the Guardian Environmental Network, reveals how rich countries faced by a global food shortage now farm an area in the developing world double the size of the UK to guarantee supplies for their citizens.
2 March 2010
In Nigeria's Delta State, the UN is funding schemes to supply electricity to rural areas using waste gas usually burnt at oil wells.
22 February 2010
Researchers believe cultural values are preventing certain ethnic groups in northern Burkina Faso from adapting to the impacts of climate change. A report published in this month's Global Environment Change journal compares the responses of two ethnic groups to climate change, both of which live in a village in the north of the country.
17 February 2010
Last week India halted the commercial release of the world's first genetically modified aubergine, or brinjal as it is known locally. While public interest has been hailed as the reason for sending the vegetable into cold storage, Pierre Fitter says if you dig below the surface you'll find it's all about state politics.
17 February 2010
With ambitious targets and multi-billion dollar investment in clean technologies, Sun Yu, chief writer for Environmental Protection magazine in Beijing, says China deserves credit for its climate policies.
25 January 2010
Researchers have published a compendium of case studies revealing how indigenous people have been affected by and are adapting to climate change. The report recommends that Western scientists draw on their knowledge and experience.
17 December 2009
Imagine a scenario where the threat to the inhabitants of conflict-torn Kashmir won't be the gun, but the quality of their air. The pollution trends in this part of the globe suggest that it has almost reached that point.
17 December 2009
Colombia's indigenous peoples are working together to create an adaptation plan against climate change, which will bring together their own traditional knowledge with outside help from other agencies.
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