An impressive dossier of pledges from developing nations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions has just been released by the United Nations, Bloomsberg Businessweek reports. The proposals include Mongolia embracing solar power, Costa Rica becoming carbon neutral, and the Central Africa Republic expanding its forests. They follow on from the agreements reached atRead More …
New commitments from poorer countries to stem climate change
23 March, 2011 by (comments)Filed Under: Climate Change
UN committed to making Cancun count
1 March, 2011 by (comments)Just launched, The Cancun Agreements website will monitor progress towards the climate change targets agreed at the United Nations COP16 conference in Cancun, Mexico, in December last year. The site outlines specific commitments relating to mitigation and adaptation, as well as national financial and technological contributions to address climate change. It also includesRead More …
Filed Under: Events
Coffee and climate change photofilm now in Spanish
1 March, 2011 by (comments)Click to watch the Spanish version of Two Degrees Up – PART ONE: Colombia. The 6-minute photostory documents the experiences of smallholder coffee farmers in Colombia’s southwestern Cauca department, who are already feeling the effects of rising temperatures on their crucial, high-value cash crop. The English version on the storyRead More …
Filed Under: Climate Change, Latin America and the Caribbean, Multimedia, Regions
Two Degrees Up on the Oxfam blog
10 February, 2011 by (comments)Our friends at Oxfam International have posted a piece about Two Degrees Up on their From Poverty to Power blog. The Two Degrees Up series of photofilms, produced by CIAT, was unveiled at the United Nations COP16 climate change conference in Cancun in December, during the launch of the CGIAR’sRead More …
Filed Under: CIAT in the media, Climate Change, Multimedia
Launch of CGIAR climate change research program featured in New Agriculturist
7 January, 2011 by (comments)The latest edition of online development magazine New Agriculturist features an article on the launch of the new CIAT-led and CGIAR-wide climate change research program, or CCAFS. The article focuses on the recent Two Degrees Up climate change photofilms, which highlight the impact of a two degree rise in temperatureRead More …
Filed Under: CIAT in the media, Climate Change
Climate change photofilms – 5,000 hits and rising
3 January, 2011 by (comments)CIAT’s Two Degrees Up climate change photofilms have been viewed over 5,000 times online, since their official launch last month. The films document the challenges of climate change to agriculture in Colombia and Ghana, to mark the launch of the CGIAR’s new multi-million dollar climate change research program (CCAFS), ledRead More …
Filed Under: Climate Change, Multimedia
Climate change photo stories are now online
1 December, 2010 by (comments)Farmer testimonials highlight the challenge of adapting agriculture to two degrees of global warming You hear a lot about “two degrees” nowadays. Conventional wisdom has it that if the international community can contain global temperature rises to within two degrees Celsius by 2050, it can prevent “runaway” global warming thatRead More …
Filed Under: Climate Change, Multimedia
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