Kathmandu Arts Festival: a climate of concern
December 21, 2012
Deepak Adhikari reports from the largest arts event in south Asia and the biggest with an environmental theme in the world.
December 21, 2012
Deepak Adhikari reports from the largest arts event in south Asia and the biggest with an environmental theme in the world.
December 20, 2012
Asian hydropower advocates point to dammed-to-the-hilt America as a reason to press ahead with controversial plans. But the US is still spending time and money undoing the damage of the past.
December 19, 2012
At this year’s UN climate summit, governments have again failed to take any significant step to combat global warming. They have done just enough to keep the UN process going. Is it worth the trouble?
December 17, 2012
Around 2.8 million people are to be moved to new towns in Shaanxi Province, linked, in part, to the south-north water transfer project. But without land or job opportunities, many are finding their new life to be harder than before.
December 14, 2012
A universal climate change agreement is both necessary and possible, says UN climate chief Christiana Figueres.
December 13, 2012
China is grappling with the social and environmental risks of building 300 dams in 66 countries, with a large number in south-east Asia.
December 09, 2012
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.
December 06, 2012
With some European countries pledging money and all countries agreeing to a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol, chances of a deal brightened on the penultimate evening of the UN climate summit in Doha.
December 06, 2012
Sandy has brought global attention to storms and their relationship with climate change. A new study has found that developing countries in Asia were the hardest hit by storms in 2011.
December 06, 2012
A drive through Doha – host city for the on-going UN climate summit – is enough to convince anyone there is no lack of money in this part of the world. But when poor nations seek money to deal with climate change effects and move to a greener future, there is so little forthcoming that it threatens any meaningful agreement.