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.
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Getting the right technology into poor countries is crucial for fighting climate change but how should we go about it? T. V. Padma investigates.
Hannah Chalmers gives the low-down on how reducing emissions from deforestation can play a central role in tackling climate change.
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
Growing forests might be easy but getting developing-country forests onto the carbon market is proving more difficult.
Source: Nature
Yvo de Boer, the UN climate chief, speaks to SciDev.Net about getting clean technology into the developing world.
The UN supports forest protection in the next climate agreement, but questions on how to tackle deforestation are still being debated.
Source: Nature
Scientists in the Himalayas are battling poor resources to protect the area from the effects of climate change. T. V. Padma reports.
T. V. Padma reports on Bhutan's dilemma: how to reconcile conservation, economic development and happiness in a modern world.
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
T.V. Padma looks at how and why greenhouse gas emissions from India are on the rise.
18 August 2006 | EN
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
Catherine Brahic reports on how fluctuations in Europe’s emissions market could impede green development in poor countries.
19 May 2006 | EN
Charles Mkoka and Mike Shanahan report on the drive to produce 'biodiesel' from billions of trees planted across the developing world.
Designing a framework for reducing forest emissions that will live up to expectations will be hard
Will climate change worsen the burden of insect-borne disease? The scientific jury is still out