DAILY NEWS - Beyond Kyoto

In the future, green consumers might be faced with a difficult choice: Do they want to buy meat from grazing, grass-fed, cows who emit 50% more greenhouse gasses than their locked-up counterparts? Or do they want to prioritize the fight against climate change by supporting farmers who keep their cattle indoors, minimizing the emissions of [...]

Many developing countries have already been taking action to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. These efforts have not been driven by climate policy but by the need for development, poverty alleviation and energy security.

The attempts to link efforts for development and the fight against climate change could signal a new type of sustainable development.
The benefits of Vietnam’s mangroves

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Speakers and participants at the Beyond Kyoto Conference agree that the climate challenges are global and are likely to hit the developing world harder than anyone else. They also agree that the issue needs to be addressed and discussed internationally, across borders, religions and economies. But a short look at the list of speakers reveals only a [...]

India needs adequate climate change policies to face the environmental challenges ahead

Half of the country suffering from drought; ripe conditions for cholera and malaria; dramatic increase in rural unemployment; unknown effects on human body systems.
India is one of the most threatened and least prepared, when it comes the effects of climate change.
K. Shadananan Nair, senior scientist [...]

Among experts there is no doubt, that in the future there will be a lack of water in Africa due to the climate change. Women play a big role in the farming world of Africa. And they are the ones who can save Africa from the worst effects of climate change.
The climate change has already [...]

The participation of citizens in the climate change debate is essential. But in the Southern hemisphere, reality on the ground is often very different from what is discussed in conferences organized in the North.
In Porto Alegre, Southern Brazil, the public participation to the climate change debate takes a very different form than in the Northern [...]

The need for drastic action on global warming must not prevent poor countries from developing, says the Danish minister of development, Ulla Tørnæs
The connection between climate aid and development aid to the developing world is unavoidable; one cannot be addressed without the other. That was the main emphasis of The Danish Minister of Development [...]

Professor Moses J. Chimbari, Deputy Director at University of Botswana, wonders why there are so few delegates from developing countries.
By Maj Susanne Junker