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A new journal on climate and development

The first issue of Climate and Development came out today. Check it out!

If you are interested in issues of climate change, how it affects the development of different nations, and how technologies can help in mitigation and adaptation, this journal will help broaden your horizon.

Some of the content of this first issue includes:

Climate and development in times of crisis Climate change is a development issue, and only sustainable development can confront the challenge How can justice, development and climate change mitigation be reconciled for developing countries in a post-Kyoto settlement? Meeting at the crossroads?: Exploring the linkages between climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction Adaptation and development: Livelihoods and climate change in Subarnabad, Bangladesh Economic aspects of adaptation to climate change: Costs, benefits and policy instruments A new diplomacy for sustainable development: The challenge of global change

All articles can be freely downloaded. Enjoy the reading!

Maiken Winter

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Oil and gas projects in the western Amazonas

Sometimes one has to wonder about the sanity of our limited human brain….(MW).

Oil and Gas Projects in Western Amazon Threaten Biodiversity and Indigenous Peoples. The western Amazon, home to the most biodiverse and intact rainforest left on Earth, may soon be covered with oil rigs and pipelines.

According to a new study, over 180 oil and gas [mehr...]