Climate change

By Javi Ros Rodriguez, originally published at GAEA blog I always liked arid landscapes – perhaps a childhood lived in Spain and Morocco has something to do with it –, so I really enjoyed my trip to Lima, and the over 30 hours on a bus that traversed the bald and endless desert that is […]

By Barbara Fraser, originall published at Forests News It’s coming soon. And it’s time to act now. Imminent climatic changes challenge planners and policy makers to forecast likely impacts and launch adaptation plans a decade or more before the worst effects are felt. With more (and better) data and tools for exploring future scenarios, planners […]

Originally posted at Forests News Paul Polman, Unilever’s CEO, said natural disasters – many linked to climate change – cost his multinational consumer-goods corporation $300 million annually, and that left unchecked “climate change has the potential to become a significant barrier to our growth.” “Deforestation is not one of the great challenges in the fight against […]

           

“La cooperación y el compromiso de los actores principales representados en este Foro son fundamentales para el éxito y en el PNUD nos complace mucho ser socios en este viaje”. Fueron las palabras de  Helen Clark, Administradora del Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD), durante su discurso de apertura en una sesión […]

Por Barbara Fraser, publicado originalmente en Los bosques en las noticias de CIFOR De niño, Cándido Mezúa Salazar escuchaba a los ancianos emberá narrar historias que explicaban por qué el agua del río es más fría en ciertas horas del día que en otras, cómo pescar de día y de noche, cómo sobrevivir al calor […]