Search Results for 'Indonesia'
Australia’s acute water shortages mapped
Projected Australian water shortages suggest governments of future will have to ration water between mining, agriculture and major cities.
Asian mega cities need ‘green urbanisation’ to avoid climate change disaster, warns ADB
Asian Development Bank says more attention must be paid to environmental stress as the region prepares for an additional 1.1 billion urban residents in next 30 years.
Deforestation in Amazon driving species to extinction
The latest international climate change news, debate and video from RTCC.
Youth Profile #2: How PIDES are working on practical solutions to climate change in Mexico
Christopher Córdova, International Director of PIDES International based in Mexico talks to RTCC about the work they are doing combining theory and practical measures in combating climate change.
Rio+20: How UK’s DFID will continue on sustainable development pathway
RTCC talks to Melinda Bohannon, Head of the Climate and Environment Strategy Unit at Department for International Development about how sustainability and climate change issues help shape the UK development agenda.
Rio+20 Business Focus: Starbucks initiative in Mexico aims to make coffee greener
As part of our Rio+20 series focused on business and sustainable development we examine the role Climate Smart Agriculture will play in ensuring sustainable development.
Rio+20 Business Focus: What makes a sustainability leader?
As part of our Rio+20 series focused on business and sustainable development, we find out what it takes to be a sustainability leader.
Bonn 2012: UNFCCC equity workshop ends in old north-south divisions emerging
Workshop on equitable access to sustainable development at UN talks in Bonn opens old wounds as India and China face off USA and EU over concept of ‘fairness’
Satellite Image: Loss of Corals, Mangroves and Turtles in the Komodo National Park
Produced as part of UNESCO’s international ‘Satellites and World Heritage Sites, Partners to Understand Climate Change’ exhibition, this image is of the Komodo National Park in Indonesdia.
Mapping water footprints across the globe
New research, mapping global flows of water consumption, aims to highlight the global approach needed when adapting sustainable national water footprints.
Former UN climate chief: Successful emissions deal needs just 10 countries
Michael Zammit Cutajar says global deal harder but greater prize to pursue; calls for end to economic defensiveness on climate change.
Coral reefs could recover, but action is needed, say experts
Coral reefs could recover from the effects of climate change and over exploitation, but with over a billion people relying on the reefs for their livelihoods, locally sensitive action is required.
Is climate change the real ticking time bomb in North Korea?
Already crippled by food and energy shortages, Kim Jong-un will also inherit increasing pressure from climate change on the country’s food supply.
COP17 blog: Christmas, economics and climate change
After five years of climate change negotiations, Hannah Ryder from the UK’s Department for International Development will watch this year’s . She tells RTCC how things have changed since her first experience of the COP and her hopes for Durban.
RTCC Q&A: UK Special Representative for Climate Change John Ashton
The UK’s Special Representative for Climate Change, John Ashton, talks to RTCC about his hopes for COP17 and why the Durban talks are still relevant.
RTCC Q&A: Kyoto Protocol
RTCC provides the answers to all the questions you may have about the Kyoto Protocol – the most famous piece of climate legislation in the world.
Emerging economies most vulnerable to climate change
New map shows emerging economies in the global south will be most at risk of climate change, but globalisation will mean all countries will be impacted