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Desperate times and measures: aid in Niger and Chad following the famine and floods
By Eryn Bailey
Climate Change Talks Prove Inconclusive in Bonn
By Amanda Wheat
Ecuador Refuses to Cash in on its Oil Reserves
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Mass migration as a result of environmental changes
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South African theatre group performs on climate change
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Haiti's displaced begin building on their own
By Leslie Pitterson
Too little too late: A mega-water project gone awry
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Nepal sets the pace for sustainable energy
By Amanda Wheat
From carbon sink to carbon source, the Amazon rainforest continues to deteriorate
By Amanda Wheat
National climate change initiatives to focus on women
By Amanda Wheat
Qatar asks UN to create rapid reaction force for natural disasters
By Kevin Huyge
Charcoal production wreaks environmental havoc in Somalia
By Amanda Wheat
UNDP takes a hard look on climate neutrality on World Environment Day
By Nosh Nalavala
Failure to meet biodiversity targets put international ecosystems in danger
By Rebekah Mintzer
Indigineous peoples find similarities with blockbuster film, prompting director to act
By Robin Wallace
Dam construction stirs up controversy in Ethiopia
By Rebekah Mintzer
Decline of Aral Sea among the 'worst environmental disasters of the world'
By MediaGlobal
Science and art mobilize to fight climate change
By Rebekah Mintzer
Caribbean islands can leverage their vulnerabilities to advocate for stronger development programs.
By Allyn Gaestel
Exodus of rural Amazonians threatens rainforest
By Kevin James Moore
Environment and Earth Changes Resources:
Nairobi Work Programme: On Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change
This United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) report was produced to aid developing countries understand and assess the impact of climate change, each country's vulnerability to climate change, and each country's best options for adaptation and mitigation. The Report focuses on the expected outcomes of climate change and the areas of work able to be done to help aid developing countries in adapting to the effects of climate change.
Report by UNEP, IUCN, Convention on Biological Diversity and UNDP
This report details the alarming rate at which the world is losing biodiversity, meaning the loss of many of the land and marine-based life forms of economic and medical interest before we can learn from them to create better technologies.
UNDP Environment and Energy Group Report: The Clean Development Mechanism
This report, produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Environment and Energy Group reviews experience with the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which will make a "significant contribution to sustainable economic development in poorer countries."
Kyoto Protocol
A protocol developed by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) with the objective of reducing greenhouse gases that contribute to and cause global climate change. As of June 2008, 182 parties have ratified the Kyoto Protocol; while the European Union ratified it as one party.
A UN Guide to Climate Neutrality
This book, produced by GRID-Arendal at the request of the Environment Management Group, addresses the issue of the world's addiction to carbon-based energy. This addiction is the cause of the massive build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the main contributing factor to global warming.
Human Solidarity in a Divided World
The report provides advice and information to policy-makers and is linked to a global research network in developing countries.
