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UN Transboundary Water Assessment Programme Launched

the third pole 24.05.2013 · Leave a Comment

A new UN programme to assess the status of transboundary water systems Read more »

Tags: governance, regional initiative, rivers

View the Brahmaputra as a living ecosystem

Joydeep Gupta 03.05.2013 · Leave a Comment
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The India-China border row in Ladakh has eclipsed unresolved water-sharing issues along the Brahmaptura. But for any agreement to work, it must involve the people who depend on the waters. Read more »

Tags: Brahmaputra, governance, Yarlung Zangbo

Pay us for our water, Kashmir tells New Delhi

Athar Parvaiz 16.04.2013 · Leave a Comment
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The government of Jammu and Kashmir has hired an international consultant to quantify the losses suffered by the Himalayan state due to the Indus Water Treaty between India and Pakistan Read more »

Tags: development, governance, hydropower, Indus

Water Wealth? Investing in Basin Management in Asia and the Pacific

Beth Walker 05.04.2013 · Leave a Comment
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A report providing examples of improved water governance and management across Asia and the Pacific region. Read more »

Tags: governance, rivers

China to consider joint river mechanism with India

Joydeep Gupta 29.03.2013 · 1 Comment

China will consider setting up a joint mechanism with India to scrutinize hydro projects in Tibet. Read more »

Tags: Brahmaputra, governance, Yarlung Zangbo

2013 international year of water cooperation

the third pole 22.03.2013 · Leave a Comment

The UN has designated 2013 as the International Year of Water Cooperation. Read more »

Tags: cooperation, governance, water

Asian Water Development Outlook 2013

the third pole 22.03.2013 · Leave a Comment
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The first quantitative and comprehensive view of water security in the countries of Asia and the Pacific. Read more »

Tags: governance, water

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A new course for the Brahmaputra

16.08.2012
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Policymakers must put the needs of people and ecosystems before national strategic goals. Tashi Tsering proposes a radical approach to development along the Brahmaputra River.

Why big dams don’t work

11.07.2012
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Yesterday, Mike Muller argued that China’s investment in dams is good news for Africa. Here, Lori Pottinger writes that large dams are costly and destructive, but Chinese experience in renewables still has a lot to offer.

Doha opens gateway to compensation for damage related to climate change

09.12.2012
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The Doha deal is clearly too weak to have any significant effect on the global warming that is gathering pace. But it does open a tiny gateway to compensate countries for climate change effects.

Why a 4°C warmer world must be avoided

21.11.2012
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A world warmer by 4°C would be “one of unprecedented heat waves, severe drought and major floods,” warns a new World Bank report, ahead of the UN climate conference in Doha next week.

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Revealed: the mystery of the Tibetan antelope’s high-altitude living

Tom Jamieson 23.05.2013

Scientists have mapped the genome of China's much-loved but endangered Tibetan antelope, able to gallop across high-altitude plains at high speed

Melting Himalayas contribute to global sea level rise

Tim Radford 21.05.2013

Melting glaciers outside the two poles account for one third of sea level rise, according to a new study

Everest glaciers have shrunk 13% since the 1960s

the third pole 20.05.2013

New research shows the world's highest peak is metling, probably due to global warming

China to share river data, India wants more

Joydeep Gupta 20.05.2013

In his first trip abroad since becoming China’s premier Li Keqiang promised to share more data on transboundary rivers with India. But Manmohan Singh, India’s prime minister, wanted more

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Exploring the third pole

the third pole 15.06.2012
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China’s grasslands: past and future

the third pole 18.11.2011
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