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Strong intellectual property rights do not always ease the transfer of climate technologies and may even hinder it, claims a study.

A weather station network across South Asia is part of an India-led drive for locally produced climate change data.

Global warming may affect the central Pacific El Niño, increasing its occurrence and leading to severe droughts in India.

Poor countries can continue to develop while curbing climate change, by pursuing 'climate-smart' technologies, says the World Bank.

Newly-developed climate models have dismissed predictions of extreme greenhouse gas emissions for India.

A warning about the risk that freshwater in the Atlantic poses to the monsoon comes with a call for better climate modelling.

India has said that it will not agree to emission reduction targets, given that it has among the lowest emissions per capita.

Climate change and space research — particularly missions to the moon — have received large chunks of funding in the new Indian budget.

The World Bank says that India must improve its climate resilience strategy, suggesting measures including a shift to dryland farming.

Predicting monsoons will be harder because of global warming — and scientists say they will need better weather models.

Scientists in India have harnessed a sophisticated computing technique to create an improved groundwater forecasting model.

Burning biomass is largely responsible for the South Asian 'brown clouds' that cause severe health problems for the country's rural poor.

The damage caused by climate change will greatly depend on how sustainable development policies are designed, a study has found.

The rise in temperature in India due to climate change will not be compensated for by increased rainfall, warns a leading climate scientist.

Researchers have mapped climate change hotspots around the globe, focusing on specific hazards including floods, cyclones and droughts.

G8 leaders pledge to cut carbon emission levels to 50 per cent by 2050, but developing countries continue to insist on more concrete targets.

South Asian nations have agreed on a three-year plan to lessen climate change impacts in the region.

India has released a national action plan on climate change focusing on renewable energy but without targets to curb emissions.

India has increased its science spending by 16 per cent, including a massive rise in funds for manned space missions.

A round up of news from or about South Asia for the period 1–17 February 2008.