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The United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight Against Desertification website provides information, news and resources concerning action to protect the world's drylands from further deterioration and degradation.
The Corner House website makes available a series of thought-provoking reports and presentations, published by themselves and by and other organizations, on climate issues.
News of weather events and climate affairs from around the African continent.
And finally,
Brazilian artist Nele Azevedo discusses her work Melting Men, a series of installations that has been adopted as climate change art.
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The Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary is a co-production of the Stockholm Environment Institute and the International Institute for Environment and Development. It is sponsored by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.
Tiempo Climate Newswatch is a weekly on-line magazine with news, features and comment on global warming, climate change, sea-level rise and development issues. The news stories carried by Newswatch are updated weekly. Comment, features, interviews and other sections of the magazine are updated on a weekly to monthly basis.
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The Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary is maintained and edited by Mick Kelly and Sarah Granich. The cartoons are created by Lawrence Moore. The site was developed by Mike Salmon and Mick Kelly.
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Climate change and security — selected resources on the web
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On the Web
Climate Change and Security
The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies in London has mounted a programme of research and events to analyze the security implications of the climate threat in detail and address the urgent issues facing policy-makers today.
Climate Change: National and Regional Security Threat Multiplier for Australia
Jason Söderblom discusses the implications of climate change for national security. Published March/April 2008
Global Environmental Change and Human Security (GECHS)
The Global Environmental Change and Human Security programme is is a core project of the International Human Dimensions Programme. Research focuses on the way diverse social processes such as globalization, poverty, disease and conflict combine with global environmental change to affect human security.
Heating up the Planet: Climate Change and Security (0.7MB download)
In Heating up the Planet: Climate Change and Security, from the Lowy Institute for International Policy, Alan Dupont and Graeme Pearman detail the international security consequences of climate change, especially for the Asia-Pacific sector. Published June 2006
How Climate Change is Pushing the Boundaries of Security and Foreign Policy
How Climate Change is Pushing the Boundaries of Security and Foreign Policy, from Chatham House, argues that climate change is likely to cause international legal disputes, disrupt access to vital resources, and damage critical infrastructure. Maritime boundaries are particularly susceptible to re-evaluation as a result of climate change; uncertainties may increase hostilities related to borders. Published June 2007
Institute for Environment and Human Security
An institute of the United Nations University, the Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) addresses the probabilility of the occurrence of risks which are the consequence of environmental hazards. It is conceived to support policy- and decisionmakers with authoritative research and information.
National Intelligence Council Assessment
Congressional testimony regarding the results of a classified National Intelligence Council assessment of the threat to the security of the United States posed by climate change.
National Security and the Threat of Climate Change
National Security and the Threat of Climate Change, from CNA, explores ways projected climate change is a threat multiplier in already fragile regions, exacerbating conditions that lead to failed states. Relevant news links are provided. Published April 2007
Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security
The Pacific Institute conducts research and policy analysis concerning environment, sustainable development and international security, recognising that the pressing problems of environmental degradation, poverty and political conflict and fundamentally inter-related and long-term solutions require an interdisciplinary perspective. Security and adaptation are focal areas.
Post-Conflict Branch
The Post-Conflict Branch extends the work of the United Nations Environment Programme in areas of the world where the natural and human environment has been damaged as a direct or indirect consequence of conflict.
Autogenerated: 29 Aug 2010
Bright Ideas
A prize-winning nation-wide biogas programme takes Vietnam's human and animal waste and turns it into clean, renewable energy, improving smallholders' quality of life
Schools for Intelligent Energy Use builds a bridge between intermediate vocational schools and civil societies to increase involvement in the field of energy saving and renewable energy
HANGER 4 LIFE produces a stylish range of ecofriendly, carbon-neutral adjustable garment hangers
Toronto Zoo is deploying green roof technology, solar hot water heating and solar and geothermal energy and plans to use dung from elephants and other large animals in a biogas plant
The Tokyo Electric Taxi Project is trialling battery-switch technology that could provide the optimum solution for electric vehicle fleets
The Far Eastern Group has built the EcoARK, a three-story exhibition hall, using 1.5 million plastic bottles (video)
SmartTrips visits different Portland neighborhoods every year with activities aimed at reducing drive-alone trips and increasing biking, walking and public transit use.
Zipcar provides flexible car sharing, by the hour or by the day and in many cities
Hydrogen-powered buses are carrying passengers on the streets of Reykjavik, Iceland (video)
The Esprimo P7000 Series of desktop computers from Fujitsu supports 0-Watt technology
Progressive Lighting and Energy Solutions makes companies green, one light bulb at a time
Ghent, Belgium, has declared Thursday a Veggie Day, promoting a meat-free, climate-friendly diet for one day of the week
Tiempo Climate Newswatch
Updated: August 29th 2010