climate change
Economic research certainly back up the notion that climate change is reducing agricultural production in parts of the world. But what if we take into account farmers’ adaptation strategies?
“Any truly sustainable development must address the scourge of climate change,” UN DESA’s Under-Secretary-General Mr. Wu Hongbo said just weeks before the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) opened in Paris on 30 November. The relationship between climate change and development...
- Erosion of mountains in some areas has outstripped the rate they grow at
- The collision of tectonic plates causes mountain ranges to rise upwards
- Long lasting ice ages since the Pleistocene has also ground them down
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More than 2,000 academics from over 80 countries – including linguist Noam Chomsky, climate scientist Michael E Mann, philosopher Peter Singer, and historian Naomi Oreskes – have called on world leaders to do more to limit global warming to a 1.5C rise.
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A new study finds that as greenhouse gas emissions and global temperatures continue to rise, mountain snowmelt will decrease.
Scientists like to think of mountain snowpack as a piggy bank that stores water for not-so-rainy days.
In California, for...
It remains unclear whether any agreement struck during the upcoming U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change session, which begins in Paris at the end of this...
As the final countdown begins to the UN climate summit in Paris, some key issues are coming to the fore. One that I have a keen interest in is the need for greater links between climate change mitigation and adaptation, with experience from India showing the many benefits that this...
- Date: 11/5/2015 12:00:00 AM
- By: Melanie Schefft ...
In the Municipality of Arque, in the Bolivian Andes, Feliciana Callata starts her day before the sun rises. She prepares food for her children and then gets ready for the agricultural activities she willdo during the day. She walksten kilometers to her farm where she will plant,...
Dear colleagues and friends,
Please sign and disseminate this petition concerning climate change in mountain areas. To bring delegates’ attention to the severe impact of climate change on mountain areas and mountain peoples at the 21st session of the Conference of Parties (...
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