Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said here Tuesday that industrialized countries must take the lead in dealing with the threat of climate change. “Looking at global emissions from a per capita perspective, it is obvious that the richest countries must take the lead,” Annan told the first annual meeting of his new […]
Zambia has not been spared by climate change damages in the recent years, Tourism and Natural Resources Deputy Minister Todd Chilembo has said, calling for measures to address the situation.
When he officiated at the workshop in Lusaka Friday for the study on the economic impacts of climate change, Chilembo said that the effects of […]
A discussion of the effects of climate change on Africa, excerpted from “Africa’s Development: Promises and Prospects - Report of the Africa Progress Panel 2008.”Global warming is well underway, and its consequences are already visible in Africa. Severe drought lurks behind the Darfur conflict, for example, and it is very likely that the problem […]
Rich countries are failing to set a good example for developing countries on tackling climate, the head of the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change has said.
According to Rajendra Pachauri, many developed countries have failed to lead the way and do what is necessary to make the developing nations commit to a new global […]
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has agreed to put out its next major assessment report by 2014, the body’s chairman Rajendra Pachauri said Thursday. The IPCC’s previous report was largely responsible for last year’s award of the Peace Prize, which the organization shared with former US vice president Al Gore […]
The Chinese government and the World Health Organization (WHO) jointly launched a program here on Monday to help the country to fight human health risks from climate change. Funded by the Spanish government, the program would support China-based United Nations organizations to conduct work in the country on climate change mitigation and […]
Frequent floods, heat waves and other extreme weather conditions could have huge health impacts for Britain, including the spread of virtually unknown infections like malaria, said a report on climate change launched Thursday. The report by the British Medical Association (BMA) called on health professionals to take the lead in combating climate change, saying doctors […]
Agriculture in the Middle East is likely to suffer losses because of high temperature, droughts, floods and soil degradation threatening the food security of many countries in the region, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations said in a statement issued on Monday.The organisation says that hunger and malnutrition caused by climate […]
Region especially vulnerable to natural disastersThe 2007-2008 Human Development Report published by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) examines the impact of climate change and warns that global warming could have a disastrous impact on many developing nations if world leaders do not take serious steps to reduce carbon emissions.
The effects of climate change will […]
Climate change could lead to a heatwave in the south-east of England killing 3,000 people within the next decade, a Department of Health report said today.It put the chances of a heatwave of that severity happening by 2017 at 25%.
Without preventative action, the report said that a nine-day heatwave, with temperatures at 27 degrees, would […]
