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The Story of Mutubanda

 

Sri Lanka already experience the impacts of climate change. Mutubanda has grown rice half his life but increasing frequency and duration of droughts are threatening his harvest. He uses traditional drought-resistant seed varieties to adapt to the changing conditions. Even this method of adaptation is under threat as the probability of future droughts increases as a result of climate change.

This is one story of many.

 

Director: Dinuksha Wattegama

Producer: Practical Action (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka)

Documentary funded by the European Commission

Project funded by the Big Lottery Fund

"UN launches global greenhouse gas emissions calculator"

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The UN on Tuesday the first gas emissions calculator able to calculate the amount of greenhouse gases produced in a given city, by specific sector or time, allowing cities to compare their performances and analyse differences.

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) UN Human Settlement Programme (UN-HABITAT) and the World Bank jointly launched the Global Greenhouse Gas Standard for cities at the World Urban Forum in Rio de Janeiro.

The Greenhouse Gas Standard calculates emission on a per capita basis. For example, greenhouse gas emissions are 4,20 tonnes of carbon dioxide per capita in Barcelona, Spain, 10.6 in Bangkok, Thailand and 17.8 in Calgary, Canada.

"Global warming and climate change" by Reuters

Submitted by administrator on Wed, 03/31/2010 - 11:32
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Global warming is the increase in average temperature of Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century and its projected continuation. Global surface temperature increased 0.74 - 0.18 C (1.33 - 0.32 F) between the start and the end of the 20th century.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that most of the observed temperature increase since the middle of the 20th century was very likely caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases resulting from human activity such as fossil fuel burning and deforestation.

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