As predicted in Climatico’s last national climate policy report, Australia has just taken the lead, along with Britain, in the development of Carbon Capture and Storage. » Read more...
In addition to conflicts over resources, border disputes, and civil war, the South Asia region is also predicted to be one of the most vulnerable areas in climate change models. » Read more...
While most states discuss Climate change either as an entirely future phenomena, or in terms of green house gas emissions. » Read more...
On April 2 2009, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) reported the results of examination of the storm surge flooding and the current defence capacity in the Tokyo Bay coastal area against flood tide at an expert panel on large-scale flood control measures of the central disaster management council. » Read more...
As expected, the global economy took center stage at the G20 Summit held yesterday in London. » Read more...
The Climatico Team will be providing a live-blog service on the climate change aspects of the G20 Summit and surrounding events in London, United Kingdom. » Read more...
In line with expectations, EU leaders did not make any substantial progress on agreeing their Copenhagen negotiating position in their Council meeting last week. » Read more...
According to a recent Gallup Poll, an increasing number of Americans believe that the threat of global warming is exaggerated. » Read more...
The public health dimension associated with climate changes is a critical interface that has yet to be fully addressed by the Government of India as they continue to push forward India's action plan on climate change. » Read more...
On March 5 2009 Climatico released its first assessment report of national climate policy across twelve of the G20 countries. » Read more...
Already a whole quarter has passed since the frenzy of negotiations that led up to the 20/20/20 Package agreement at the European Council meeting last December. » Read more...
Recently, climate change adaptation concerns in India have emphasized Himalayan areas and agriculture farmers. » Read more...
Like most EU talks seem to be nowadays, those today on climate change were rather fractious, specifically the debates around adaptation financing.The current EU position for Copenhagen estimates that "net global incremental investment" for tackling climate change needs to be 175 billion euros by 2020, with 100 billion euros of that spent in developing countries. » Read more...
Usually, the EU’s policy on global warming tends to focus on mitigation: the 20/20/20 Climate and Energy Package is the obvious recent example. » Read more...
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A few weeks ago, a new website monitoring climate funds was launched. » Read more...
This week saw a double whammy of bad news for water resources, as research in South Asia and South America gave dire warnings for the future if better water resource management (WRM) was not practised. » Read more...
The Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) ended yesterday. » Read more...
Last year, rich countries pledged some $6 billion for the World Bank's Climate Investment Funds (CIFs), to which the UK is a significant contributor. » Read more...
It was announced last week that two universities, one in Brazil and one in China, are to partner on developing climate change technologies. » Read more...