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Developing countries to share community-based adaptation experience
/ Agriculture, Featured, Government
By T.V. Padma – SciDev.Net Countries in Asia and Africa have formed an open and informal ‘government group network’ to help mainstream community-based adaptation (CBA) to climate change and share...
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Data dearth impeding fight against desertification
/ Featured, Green Technologies, Science
By Jan Piotrowski – SciDev.Net The lack of location-specific scientific data on the degradation of land, and the dearth of networks through which to share such data where it...
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Africa Fights Climate Change
/ Agriculture, Government, Green Technologies, Investment
The African Development Bank is hosting the fourth meeting of the Board of Program Directors of the Climate for Development in Africa Initiative. - AfDB hosts a high-level meeting - Clim-Dev becomes...
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AfDB Cites African Countries’ Integrated Climate Resilience Solutions in the Water Sector in CIF Global 2012 Annual Report
/ Featured, Government, Investment, Mineral & Natural Resources
The African Development Bank (AfDB) (http://www.afdb.org) has laid out solutions some African countries are about to apply, with help from the AfDB and the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), to respond...
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Zimbabwe’s climate change policies need an urban focus
/ Energy & Power Generation, Featured, Green Technologies, Humanitarian
In spite of the political and financial turmoil that Zimbabwe faces, the country seems to be on the right track in adopting strategies to address the effects of climate change....
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Building support for locally relevant climate tech
/ Energy & Power Generation, Green Technologies, Investment
Climate Innovation Centers can promote clean technologies but need backing with a coordinated effort, says policy specialist Ambuj Sagar. Technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help people to adapt...
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Ministerial conference adopts integrated African strategy for meteorology
/ Agriculture, Featured, Government, Research
An integrated African strategy for meteorology to meet challenges such as climate change and extreme weather hazards has been adopted by a ministerial-level conference in Zimbabwe. The Second Session of...









