Solar panels combat more than climate change
Guardian Unlimited | 30 Apr 2012
A pilot scheme helping schools to go solar is being rolled out nationally. You have two weeks to applyA little over a year ago I found myself clambering through a skylight on to the roof of Fox school, a primary nestled in a back street in London's Notting Hill. The headteacher, Paul Cotter, was...
 Institutional Capacity Building

Africa: National Climate Change Initiatives to Focus On Women
AllAfrica.com | 28 Jun 2010
Although climate change does not pick and choose its victims, some groups are more affected than others. In developing countries, women are often the main water transporters and agricultural producers, one of many examples illustrating the way in which women are more likely to feel the consequences of climate change than men.
 Climate Change Impacts | Initiatives | Institutional Capacity Building

Ghana: Local Women to Engage in Climate Change Decision Making
AllAfrica.com | 13 Apr 2010
A project aimed to achieve long term impact on the promotion of women's rights and gender responsiveness of climate change policy making, mitigation and adaptation measures in Ghana has been launched in Accra.
 Ghana | Climate Change Mitigation | Initiatives | Institutional Capacity Building

Nigeria: Climate Change Threat to Coastal Cities - Banire
AllAfrica.com | 02 Apr 2010
Muiz Banire, Lagos State Commissioner for the Environment, is known to display a lot of passion when issues that border on the environment are discussed. Though a legal practitioner, Banire has a grasp of the technicalities in the environment sector. In this encounter with select journalists, he as, captivates his audience with enthralling technical details of the Lagos State channelisation programme. Reporter, Emeka Umejei was there. Excerpts:
 Nigeria | Climate Change Adaptation | Climate Change Mitigation | Institutional Capacity Building

World first for wine firm
Stuff | 09 Oct 2006
A Marlborough winery has become the world's first CarboNZero certified carbon-neutral wine producer.
 Institutional Capacity Building | New Technologies | Policy | Research | Responses

More insurance solutions needed on climate – Ceres
Environmental Finance | 31 Aug 2006
US insurance companies have made an encouraging start in developing policies to combat climate change, but more effort is needed, according to a US-based investor group.
 Climate Change | Climate Change Adaptation | Climate Change and Development | Industry | Initiatives | Institutional Capacity Building | Institutional Involvement

The Big Question: What is carbon trading, and can it save the world from global warming?
Climate Ark | 03 Aug 2006
Independent: Why are we asking the question now? Britain and California, the most populous American state, are to sign a new carbon trading agreement. It is particularly significant because it appears to be a snub to President George Bush's decision to renounce the Kyoto treaty which set targets for reducing emissions of the gases that are blamed for global warming.
 Carbon Storage | Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change Mitigation | Climate Change Negotiations | Initiatives | Institutional Capacity Building | Institutional Involvement

Methane makers yield to science
BBC | 25 Jul 2006
German scientists crack the genetic code of an important group of methane-producing microbes found in rice paddies.
 Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Initiatives | Institutional Capacity Building | Institutional Involvement | Research | Responses

Commission targets fuel cell drive
Green Consumer Guide | 18 Jul 2006
The development of hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicles is set to be boosted by a new programme from the European Commission, designed to speed up the process. A public and industry consultation will be launched on the proposed safety regulations, in a bid to incorporate the technology in an approval framework.
 Emissions Trading and Flexible Mechanisms | Enabling Activities | Energy Efficiency | EU Emission Trading Scheme | Institutional Capacity Building | Institutional Involvement

The G8 summit: don't forget climate change
Open Democracy | 13 Jul 2006
The rich world's leaders are preparing for the G8 summit in Russia's second city of St Petersburg on 15-17 July 2006. At the 2005 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, Britain's prime minister Tony Blair highlighted climate change and Africa as the two most important issues for the heads of state and government to discuss.
 Initiatives | Institutional Capacity Building | Institutional Involvement | Joint Implementation | Microfinance | New Technologies | Newly Discovered Effects | Non-Annex I Carbon Projects | North-South Finance