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This report addresses the mitigation of short-lived climate forcers (SLCFs) and its key role in air pollution reduction, climate protection and sustainable development. SLCFs are substances in the atmosphere that contribute to global warming and have relatively short lifetimes in the atmosphere. The focus is on three SLCFs – black carbon, tropospheric ozone and methane – because reducing them will provide significant benefits through improved air quality and a slowing of near-term climate change...

Corporations, investors and governments today are faced with a choice: to compete aggressively for finite resources, or to advance towards a low-carbon economy that enables sustainable, profitable growth, whilst reducing reliance on increasingly scarce materials.
Last year global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions reached a record high. The International Energy Agency estimates made for bleak reading, but compounded the necessity to take bold and decisive action, if we are to have any...

Scholars, civil society and policy makers from India, along with their colleagues from developing countries, have had a long-standing engagement with the question of equity in climate change. This
engagement has not only been reflected in India’s climate policy in the run-up to and the signature of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change at Rio de Janeiro in 1992 but also
infurther contributions to the climate debate, both in the negotiations and outside, over the...

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), already under severe criticism for violating the requirements of academic peer review and relying on secondary sources, comes under attack again in a new report released August 29 and co-produced by three nonprofit research organizations titled Climate Change Reconsidered: 2011 Interim Report.

According to the new report, “natural causes are very likely to be [the] dominant” cause of climate change that took place in the...