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Water resources in South Asia: conflict to cooperation

the third pole 25.06.2012 · 5 Comments

A two-day international conference on South Asia's water resources will be held in Dhaka on January 4-5, 2013. Read more »

Tags: event, governance, regional initiative, rivers

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development

the third pole 25.05.2012 · Leave a Comment
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ICIMOD is a regional intergovernmental learning and knowledge sharing centre serving the eight countries of the Hindu Kush Himalayas. Read more »

Tags: governance, mountains, regional initiative, research institution

South Asian Association For Regional Cooperation

the third pole 23.09.2011 · Leave a Comment

  South Asian Association For Regional Cooperation has set up centres on meteorological research, forestry, coastal zone management and disaster management, and in 2010 decided to launch additional climate-related commission initiatives. But the organisation remains relatively weak, with little autonomous capacity to act. Read more »

Tags: climate change, governance, regional initiative, 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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thethirdpole.net’s first reader presents highlights from our published articles by journalists and experts from Tibet to Bangladesh. Important articles are classified by theme and this reader is free to download

China’s grasslands: past and future

the third pole 18.11.2011
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A collection of chinadialogue.net articles on China’s grasslands looks at the challenges facing herders and the landscapes they inhabit, from climate change to settlement policies, and strategies for meeting them. Download Now

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