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G7 report: Making climate change and fragility a foreign policy priority
At the close of the Meeting of G7 Foreign Ministers in Lübeck today, the Ministers announced a stronger collective commitment to tackling the climate-related risks faced by weak states. This follows the presentation of an independent report – ...
The Costs of Climate Change Impacts for India: A Preliminary Analysis
India has emphasised inclusion of adaptation as a part of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC). For understanding adaptation requirements, we need to understand and value climate change impacts first. This preliminary assessment tries to estimate the cost of global...
Study: Climate Change can put Southwestern Wyoming at risk of Wildfires

According to a recent study by the United States Geological Survey, it has unveiled that climate change will terribly affect southwestern Wyoming.

If this happens, it will make Wyoming quite vulnerable to wildfires and affect plant and animal life in the region. The scientists...

Sustainable Development Goals aim “to leave no one behind” stresses UN Special Adviser Amina Mohammed

Amina Mohammed, Special Adviser on the post-2015 development agenda for the United Nations, talks to AGRA FACTS journalist Rose O’Donovan about the UN Sustainable Development Goals, including the Zero Hunger Challenge...

Job Oppening: Agroclimatologist in CIAT
The CIAT works to reduce hunger and poverty, and improve human nutrition in the tropics through research aimed at increasing the eco-efficiency of agriculture. The main goal of the Decision and Policy Analysis Program (DAPA) is...
A guide to INDCS intended nationally determined contributions
This guide is intended to support the preparation of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) by Least Developed Countries (LDCs) for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It was initiated at the request of several LDCs, who asked for...
Environment File: Bye bye Banff?
Glacier warning

Alberta is on track to lose up to 95 per cent of its Rocky Mountain glaciers this century due to climate change, suggests a new report, and a prominent freshwater scientist says that will have a big effect on our water supplies.

Garry Clarke,...

Water Resources Planning through Climate Change Capacity Building: Rios del Paramo al Valle, por urbes y campinas

Rios del Paramo al Valle

Colombia's water resources management institutions need to evaluate water supply, demand, quality, and climate risks under a situation of insufficient information regarding future water provision constraints. The country's accelerated urbanization and...

Climate Change Could Cause Rocky Mountains To Lose 90 Percent Of Its Glaciers By End Of Century

The ice loss could cause significant problems for local ecosystems. New research suggests up to 70 percent of glacier ice in British Columbia and Alberta could disappear by the end of the 21st century.

New publicactions on urban protected areas, renewable energy, global actions and green economy

Here all of them:

(1) Tunisia: Derisking Renewable Energy Investment

This new report presents the results of an innovative modelling analysis on the cost effectiveness of public interventions to promote private sector investment in renewable...

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