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Arab Environment: Impact of Climate Change on the Arab Countries’ (AFED) Report 2009
The report analyzes the Arab response to the urgent need for adaptation measures, and uses the latest research findings to describe the vulnerabilities of natural and human systems in the Arab world to climate change and the impacts on different sectors.
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World Bank: South Asia and Climate Change
Climate change is no longer an issue for the distant future. Climate change is already taking place, and the South Asian countries, particularly the poorest people, are most at risk. The impacts of higher temperatures, more variable precipitation, more extreme weather events, and sea level rise are felt in South Asia and will continue to intensify. These changes are already having major impacts on the economic performance of South Asian countries and on the lives and livelihoods of millions of poor people.
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Sea Level Risks: Middle East
Global Warming Art: This is a topographic map designed to emphasize portions of the Middle East that are near sea level and hence could potentially be vulnerable to sea level rise.
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India: Ministry of Environment and Forests
The Ministry of Environment & Forests is the nodal agency in the administrative structure of the Central Government, for the planning, promotion, co-ordination and overseeing the implementation of environmental and forestry programmes. The Ministry is also the Nodal agency in the country for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
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India prays for rain as water wars break out
India's vast farming economy is on the verge of crisis. The lack of rain has hit northern areas most, but even in Mumbai, which has experienced heavy rainfall and flooding, authorities were forced to cut the water supply by 30% last week as levels in the lakes serving the city ran perilously low.
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India Playing Hard to Get on Climate Change
India has emerged as a keystone for global climate-change negotiations, and so far its role has indeed been mostly negative. The country of more than 1 billion — a populace that encompasses the very rich and the very poor, and whose carbon emissions are microscopic on a per capita basis but massive overall — is uniquely vulnerable to global warming yet suspicious of international efforts to stop it.
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Climate change and challenges for India
To developing countries like India, Climate Change imposes new challenges that may probably require negotiating new international and national political and economic arrangements, fashioning new technological interventions, and negotiating financial and technological transfers for mitigation and adaption to climate change.
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Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency
Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency is an attached department of the Ministry of Environment and responsible to implement the Pakistan Environmental Protection Act, 1997 in the country. An Act to provide for the protection, conservation, rehabilitation and improvement of environment, for the prevention and control of pollution, and promotion of sustainable development.
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Environment Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is an island, 65,610 km2 in area situated close to the Southeast corner of the peninsula of India. Despite its relatively small size, Sri Lanka possesses a high level of bioddiversity. This site provides information, galleries, discussions on Sri Lankan Environment, Biodiverstiy, Eco-tourism and environmental issues.
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Iran: Government Structure
Links to key elements of the Iranian government.
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Iran: Department of the Environment
In the Islamic Republic, it is considered a public duty to protect the environment where the present and future generations are to have a thriving social life. Thus, any form of activities, whether economic or otherwise, that causes pollution of or irreparable damage to the environment is prohibited.
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The Afghanistan Analyst: Afghanistan Government
The goal of The Afghanistan Analyst is to provide an online research portal for scholars, students, journalists, policy-makers, NGO/humanitarian workers, and others who want to better understand Afghanistan.
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Nepal Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology
The National Science and Technology Council and the Royal Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (RoNAST) were founded in 1976 and 1982 A.D., respectively, and the Ministry of Science and Technology was instituted on 2053/02/02 B.S. [15 April, 1996 A.D.] to make coordination amongst all the bodies to perform the functions relating to science and technology in the process of national development and to effectively accelerate the activities relating thereto by creating a conducive environment for the proper development of science and technology. This Ministry has, after the dissolution of the Ministry of Population and Environment on 2061/12/18 B.S. [31 March, 2005 A.D.] and the merge of the Environment Division of the said Ministry in this Ministry, been named as "Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology [MoEST]".
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Turkey: Ministry of Environment and Forestry
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Israel: Ministry of the Environment
In December 1988, a Ministry of the Environment was established in Israel. This proved a landmark in Israel's environmental development and in the government's determination to tackle environmental issues.
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Mideast climate change and its strategic implications
The strategic implications of climate change in the Middle East focus on a few key issues – fresh water resources, increasing desertification and shifting weather patterns. In the past, these issues were divisive on the regional level. With climate change, their strategic implications become more prominent.
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Israel is warming up and drying out, researchers find
Most parts of Israel are becoming increasingly drier, two researchers have found. The researchers, Hendrik Bruins and Hemu Kafle of Ben-Gurion University's Desert Research Institute, published their study of Israeli climate trends in the scientific journal "Climate Change."
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Water In the Middle East Conflict
Water is a cardinal issue in the Middle East. Any year there is a drought, it makes headlines. Otherwise, it is always there, lurking in the background, behind the religious and nationalist slogans and rhetoric.
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Overview of Middle East Water Resources
Water is the most precious and valuable natural (and national) resource in the Middle East, vital for socioeconomic growth, sustainability of the environment, and—when considered to the extreme—for survival. This publication presents an overview of Middle East water resources in areas of Israeli, Jordanian, and Palestinian interest.
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Rising Temperatures, Rising Tensions: Climate change and the risk of violent conflict in the Middle East
The Levant—made up of Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan and the occupied Palestinian territory —has experienced more than 60 years of bloody conflict. Against this backdrop, the mounting scientific evidence confirming the speed and scope of climate
change seems, at most, a secondary concern to be addressed once other problems have been resolved. However, climate change—by redrawing the maps of water availability, food security, disease prevalence, population distribution and coastal boundaries — may hold serious implications for regional security.
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The carbon bomb
To understand the perils and the multi-billion dollar promises of living in the age of climate change, start amid the bus-high piles of garbage in a municipal compost plant in the south Delhi suburb of Okhla.
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South Asia
