Land-use options that increase resilience and reduce vulnerability of contemporary societies are fundamental to livelihoods improvement and adaptation to environmental change. Agroforestry as a traditional land-use adaptation may potentially support livelihoods improvement through simultaneous...

The recently concluded conclave of Indian corporate leaders in Palampur to discuss the scary situation of climate change in the world left the delegates more bewildered than clear on the strategies to be adopted to tackle the threat of global warming in India.

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Climate change is one of the most important issues of the next decades and has the potential to severely impact societies, economies and human wellbeing.

This conference is one of the most important and most complex in the history of climate policy negotiations. The objective is to form a treaty as a successor for the Kyoto Protocol. To enable a breakthrough on climate policy to be made in Copenhagen particularly vigorous efforts should be made...

Environmental Issues in India: A Reader Edited by Mahesh Rangarajan; Pearson Longman, New Delhi; Pp. 570, Rs 199.

This manual is provided as a reference tool to assist Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (hereafter referred to as the Convention) (Annex I Parties) in the implementation of their commitments related to the accounting of emissions and assigned amount under the...