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11-20 of 20 for the Category : Global Change and the Subcategory : Global Warming & Climate ChangeGlobal Change
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Africa, as a whole, is extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. This is not only due to the actual changes expected, but also due to the poor capacity of its people to cope with the changes and the developmental constraints.
Read more about Global ChangeGlobal Compact (The United Nations Global Compact- UNGC)
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The UNGC is a strategic policy initiative and a global leadership platform for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment an
Read more about Global Compact (The United Nations Global Compact- UNGC)Global Warming & Climate Change
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'Global warming', or 'climate change', refers to the rise in the planet's overall temperature due to anthropogenic (human-related) increase of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere.
Read more about Global Warming & Climate ChangeGreenwash
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Greenwash is not a new concept. The term emerged from the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, and it entered the Concise Oxford Dictionary in 1999.
Read more about GreenwashKyoto Protocol
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The Kyoto Protocol is an internationally negotiated framework for regulating greenhouse gas emissions of signatory countries that aims to limit the potential negative impacts of global warming and associated climate change (is manifested at global, r
Read more about Kyoto ProtocolNatural Disasters
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The United Nations (UN) humanitarian news and information service IRIN reports that natural disasters are occurring more often with a dramatic impact on the world in terms of both human and economic costs.
Read more about Natural DisastersRenewable Energy & Energy Efficiency
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Modern Renewable Energy Systems and Energy Efficient Options are technically mature, commercially established, readily accessible and they are more or less just as expensive (or cheap) as the conventional option of grid.
Read more about Renewable Energy & Energy EfficiencyTropical Rain Forest
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Tropical rain forests appear like a girdle around the equator and occupy approximately 8% of the earth's land surface, yet they comprise about half of all growing wood on the face of the earth and provide habitats for at least two fifths of all the
Read more about Tropical Rain ForestWater and Climate Change
( Article Type: Sustainable Development )
Water is the primary medium through which climate change will impact people, ecosystems and economies. Even though there is still much that is not understood about the way climate will respond in the future, globally the overall impacts of climat
Read more about Water and Climate ChangeWater Conflict
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Fresh water is an important natural resource for the survival and economic development of humankind. It is also a scarce resource.
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