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Wednesday, 2 April 2014

Fwd: Thomson Reuters Foundation AlertNet Climate - This week's top stories



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From: <laurie.goering@thomsonreuters.com>
Date: 1 April 2014 11:39
Subject: Thomson Reuters Foundation AlertNet Climate - This week's top stories
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Thomson Reuters Foundation AlertNet Climate – This week’s top stories

http://www.trust.org/alertnet/climate-change/
@alertnetclimate

WORLD

World ill-prepared for rising climate risks, but adaptation helps – IPCC report
http://www.trust.org/item/20140330220050-47dzb/

“Nobody on this planet” will be untouched by climate change – IPCC head
http://www.trust.org/item/20140331114208-0narb/

Card game aims to guide better climate adaptation decisions
http://www.trust.org/item/20140328204411-e5wdu/

ASIA

Climate change threatens India’s economy, food security – IPCC
http://www.trust.org/item/20140331141611-8rssj/

Loss of forests accelerates as Myanmar opens for business
http://www.trust.org/item/20140326124321-kpqdz/

Imran Khan comes to bat for forests in Northwest Pakistan
http://www.trust.org/item/20140319102957-wsm07/

Freak hailstorms lead to surge in farmer suicides in Central India
http://www.trust.org/item/20140320110027-mnb5q/

Battle over Essar-led project reflects India’s new mining pains
http://www.trust.org/item/20140320090311-nlxpu/

AFRICA

Squeezed Kenyan poachers switch to al Shabaab charcoal racket – police
http://www.trust.org/item/20140326164355-aswmt/

Tanzania gets on the low-carbon bus to beat traffic jams
http://www.trust.org/item/20140325103555-hz2w9

Coral cultivation offers hope to devastated western Indian Ocean reefs
http://www.trust.org/item/20140328224703-b3pan/

Wind and dust can predict Sahel meningitis outbreaks – scientists
http://www.trust.org/item/20140320152117-zws64/

Kenya clean energy centres drive switch to renewables
http://www.trust.org/item/20140324105744-h4bku/

In Kenya, farmers abandon coffee for thirsty bananas
http://www.trust.org/item/20140328233516-kyph2/

BLOGS

IPCC report delivers a dose of adaptation realism – Megan Rowling, AlertNet Climate
http://www.trust.org/item/20140328141304-tnhk3

In pasture-scarce North Kenya, feuding pastoralists seek peace – James Pattison, IIED
http://www.trust.org/item/20140319143210-bz7lx

Is Liberia’s president going cold on the palm oil industry? – Mark Olden, FERN
http://www.trust.org/item/20140320153254-aep4f

Can REDD+ work without land and carbon rights? – Andy White, RRI
http://www.trust.org/item/20140317145708-02wks

IPCC report: The world can’t afford inaction – C. Forbes Tompkins and Kelly Levin, WRI
http://www.trust.org/item/20140401075337-3l69i

IPCC climate report sounds humanitarian ‘clarion call’ – Tadateru Konoe, IFRC
http://www.trust.org/item/20140330205539-8a9wk

Think climate change has nothing to do with you? Think again – Miren Gutierrez, ODI
http://www.trust.org/item/20140325140234-hkf7u

Forests can help make war or peace – Janpeter Schilling and Janani Vivekananda, International Alert
http://www.trust.org/item/20140326100112-4crqm

How do you prepare for an uncertain future? – Lindsey Jones, ODI
http://www.trust.org/item/20140321124519-z2osd

Mangrove protection still hit and miss – Julie Mollins, CIFOR
http://www.trust.org/item/20140319033343-uoatc

AlertNet Climate, a daily news website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, focuses on the humanitarian and development impacts of climate change. The site combines on-the-ground reports, analysis and blogs by Reuters and AlertNet staff, freelance writers around the developing world, leading climate thinkers, researchers, policy makers and aid workers.

For daily news on climate issues including adaptation, low-carbon development, food security, human migration, health concerns, deforestation, conflicts/security, disaster risk reduction and many others, please take a look at our website: http://www.trust.org/?show=alertnetclimate

To see our stories in translation, take a look at our AlertNet Climate in Translation Facebook site (http://www.facebook.com/alertnetclimate.in.translation), where you can see translations of our stories into languages such as Kiswahili and Urdu.

You can also hear these translated stories in audio form on our Audioboo site: http://audioboo.fm/channel/alertnetclimate

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