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Climate change's tech transfer challenge

Getting the right technology into poor countries is crucial for fighting climate change but how should we go about it? T. V. Padma investigates.

5 November 2009 | EN | 中文

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Reducing forest emissions: Facts and figures

Hannah Chalmers gives the low-down on how reducing emissions from deforestation can play a central role in tackling climate change.

8 July 2009 | EN | ES | FR | 中文

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'Dark earth' and its carbon-holding powers

Locking carbon away as charcoal in the soil could help to mitigate climate change but whether it will work in practice remains a mystery.

Source: Nature Reports Climate Change

15 June 2009 | EN | 中文

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Growing money on trees?

Growing forests might be easy but getting developing-country forests onto the carbon market is proving more difficult.

Source: Nature

13 January 2009 | EN | 中文

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Q&A: Clean technologies with Yvo de Boer

Yvo de Boer, the UN climate chief, speaks to SciDev.Net about getting clean technology into the developing world.

1 December 2008 | EN | ES

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Managing world's tropical forest spurs debate

The UN supports forest protection in the next climate agreement, but questions on how to tackle deforestation are still being debated.

Source: Nature

14 March 2008 | EN | 中文

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Monitoring climate change at the top of the world

Scientists in the Himalayas are battling poor resources to protect the area from the effects of climate change. T. V. Padma reports.

16 August 2007 | EN | 中文

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Bhutan's balancing act: Happiness vs. development

T. V. Padma reports on Bhutan's dilemma: how to reconcile conservation, economic development and happiness in a modern world.

16 August 2007 | EN | 中文

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Development versus climate change in India

India won't halt development to avoid greenhouse gas emissions but is taking steps to adapt to climate change that is already inevitable, reports T. V. Padma.

31 August 2006 | EN

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India & climate change: Facts and figures

T.V. Padma looks at how and why greenhouse gas emissions from India are on the rise.

18 August 2006 | EN

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Wet or dry? Sahel's uncertain future

Climate change in Africa's Sahel region challenges researchers and policymakers because the best models around predict opposite outcomes, reports Catherine Brahic.

5 June 2006 | EN

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What next? Carbon markets and clean development

Catherine Brahic reports on how fluctuations in Europe’s emissions market could impede green development in poor countries.

19 May 2006 | EN

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The bumpy road to clean, green fuel

Charles Mkoka and Mike Shanahan report on the drive to produce 'biodiesel' from billions of trees planted across the developing world.

4 November 2005 | EN | 中文