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[The Gov Monitor] Climate change can be helped by using Information technology | The ...: The ITU pointed out that while ICTs provide unprecedented opportunities to accelerate social and economic development, communities that currently lack access and know-how are being further marginalized. It is, therefore, encouraging its member States to adopt school-based community broadband plans to bring ICT access to disadvantaged and vulnerable groups.

[Environment South Africa - NEWS - FORUMS - ARTICLES - LEGISLATION] Leaders Pledge to Accelerate Climate Change Action - Environment ...: Environmental News Articles and Forums for South Africa. Nuclear Issues, Global Warming, Climate Change, Environment, Ecosystems, Mining, Poisoning, GM Foods, Legislation.

[cop15.dk News] New study: Catastrophic climate change could happen within 50 ...: Rie Jerichow 28/09/2009 17:05If greenhouse gas emissions are not cut soon, we could see major climate changes within our lifetime, or five decades earlier than previously predicted, says a British Met Office study being presented today at a conference at Oxford University.

[Wednesday-Night] Wednesday-Night - » World Hunger: (Planet Ark/Reuters) DAKAR - Poor people in Africa’s arid Sahel region will go without food despite bumper harvests this year, as wild price moves on world markets put staple cereals beyond many families’ budgets, aid agencies say.

[SUNfiltered] SUNfiltered : Fresh culture daily. » Blog Archive » Science Report ...: This new analysis of the latest, peer-reviewed science indicates that many predictions at the upper end of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change’s forecasts are becoming more likely. Some events thought likely to occur in the long-term are already happening or will happen far sooner than had previously thought, the report shows.

[Int. Federation Red Cross Red Crescent Societies] Red Cross Red Crescent - Opinion Pieces: Scientists warn that if the Himalayan glaciers disappear, the impact would be felt by more than one billion people across Asia. What will African farmers do when floods wash away their crops as is happening these days in West Africa?

[AfricaNews - Topics in category Weblogs - EN] AfricaNews - Museveni to address summit on Climate Change - Mugira: Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni is due to address the 64th, UN General Assembly summit on climate change on Wednesday. He is expected to high light challenges faced by Uganda and Africa including negative human activities and population pressure on the little available land.

[Care2 News Network] Climate change accelerating - UNEP - Care2 News Network: Theodor Landscheidt of Canada’s Schroeter Institute for Research in Cycles of Solar Activity, says ENSO is the “strongest source of natural variability in the global climate system. During the severe ENSO event 1982/1983, when the sea surface off Peru warmed by more than 7° C, it was discovered that there are strong links to weather in other regions as, for instance, floods in California and intensified drought in Africa.”

[The United Nations] United Nations Radio: UN Climate Change Summit opens in New York: The world's leading scientists warn that we have less than ten years to avoid the worst-case scenarios projected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC]. Indeed those worst-case scenarios are becoming ever more likely.

[Watts Up With That?] The Copenhagen Climate Change Treaty Draft - wealth transfer ...: “Jackie Clark, producer of the show, said: ‘We African-Americans have this vision of Africa as the motherland which we see in this wonderful light, but people who have lived there can burst this bubble. It takes courage to say things you know are going to outrage people, but I think Richburg wishes he were white.’

[Breaking News] Environmentalists cheer dolphin as national aquatic animal: China will review planned dam that threatens fishBEIJING ”” China's environment ministry said Thursday that it has ordered an ecological assessment for a proposed Yangtze River dam that conservationists fear could threaten hundreds of fish species and drive the giant Chinese sturgeon into extinction. Chinese environmentalists and scientists are trying to halt the Xiaonanhai dam, upstream from Chongqing city in mountainous western China, saying that it and two other dams would flood most of the last remaining fish reserve on the Yangtze, preventing the migration of rare fish.

[Intellectual Property Watch] Intellectual Property Watch » Blog Archive » Bangkok Climate ...: Intellectual Property Watch subscribers receive exclusive access to stories published on the website under password protection, plus the Intellectual Property Watch monthly edition, a 16-page selection of the most important stories and features, including the People column and News Briefs section not available anywhere else. These columns contain the latest on personnel changes in the international IP community, and items on IP policy news and reports from around the world.

[Climate Thinkers Blog] The impact of climate change in the Sahel - COP15 United Nations ...: Building capacity will require in-depth knowledge on climate change, as well as developing climate sciences, analyzing and capitalizing endogenous adaptation strategies, establishing scientific partnerships across the world, disseminating and sharing the knowledge acquired about the phenomenon. In implementing the Canadian Government-funded project entitled “Support to the Sahel adaptation capacity to climate change” CILSS has been able to address these key aspects through the AGRHYMET Centre (regional centre attached to CILSS specialised in agrometeorology and hydrology, HQs in Niamey, Niger).

[SustainabilityBlog.org] Tackling climate change could earn Africa $1.5 billion ...: “It is essential that climate change be viewed as a major development opportunity for Africa given the anticipated increase in the energy requirements as growth accelerates,” the Bank’s managing director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told a public lecture at the London School of Economics.

[Room for Debate] Australia's Dust Bowl and Global Warming - Room for Debate Blog ...: Though July was unusually cool in some areas, like the eastern United States, analysts at the NOAA Climate Data Center said the combined global land and ocean surface temperature was 1.03 degrees higher than the 20th-century average of 60.4 degrees, the fifth warmest since worldwide record keeping began in 1880. The agency also said that, on average, Arctic sea ice covered 3.4 million square miles in July, 12.7 percent below the 1979-2000 average and the third lowest on record, after 2007 and 2006.

[Breaking News] Citing climate change, federal judge says grizzlies still threatened: Obama pleads for harder work on climate changeUNITED NATIONS ”” President Barack Obama has implored world leaders to confront climate change, saying there can be no peace without cooperative work to preserve the planet. Appearing before global leaders gathered at the United Nations, Obama said Wednesday that "the danger posed by climate change cannot be denied ”” and our responsibility to meet it must not be deferred."The president said "this is why the days when America dragged its feet on this issue are over." He said he understood the tempation of nations to put economic recovery from recession ahead of climate change work, but said that must not be allowed to happen.

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