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Climate Himalaya's Blog – November 2010 Archive (3)

Cancún-Mountain Trails and Beyond...

The Climate Himalaya Initiative team will be regularly updating the NEWS from Cancún, at its page "Cancún-Mountain Trails" http://chimalaya.org/cancun-mountain-trails/, to let mountain community know

that how important they are in terms of climatic changes, and how seriously

they are taken at this global summit.



Till now, we could get only one organization that has planned an…

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Added by Climate Himalaya on November 26, 2010 at 7:01 — No Comments

Dependence on borrowed research has cost us, says Jairam Ramesh-India’s Environment Minister

Even as the Indian Network for Climate Change Assessment — dubbed “the Indian Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)” — released its first report on the impact of climate change in four regions of the country, it admitted that significant research gaps and lack of extensive databases were hampering Indian climate science.



Long-term localised data was not available on vegetation and forest cover, socio-economic trends, farm inputs, pests and crop diseases, terrain, soil… Continue

Added by Climate Himalaya on November 19, 2010 at 5:21 — No Comments

India: Environmentalist Asks Government to set up Institute for Eco Study

In a bid to save the Himalayas from further degradation, prominent environmentalist and Magsaysay award recipient Chandi Prasad Bhatt has asked the government to establish a multi-purpose institute to examine the changes in the glaciers, lakes, and forests in the region. Bhatt,in a letter to Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and others, said the Himalayan region was under constant threat due to increased incidents of floods and landslide. “43 per cent

the… Continue

Added by Climate Himalaya on November 15, 2010 at 15:00 — No Comments

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