Climate change across the Tibetan Plateau greatly impacts Tibetan livelihoods, even though Tibetan customary modes of production generate very little of the emissions that cause climate change. As the world’s biggest maker and user of…
Over recent years, the ecology of the Tibetan Plateau has been extensively discussed and debated among a number of environmental experts, strategists, and researchers highlighting its significance and impact on global climate change which has…
Michael Buckley’s many years researching Tibetan issues has led to the publication of three new books. Here he speaks to Contact about his involvement with Tibet. Contact: Tell us briefly about yourself – your background,…
Every infrastructure development along the Indo-Tibet border would bring a new degree of threat to India’s border security. But the construction of a ‘super dam’ in Metok means the threat expands all the way to…
New report finds world’s largest hydropower firms are falling short of environmental and social standards. The world’s largest hydropower companies, made up of mainly Chinese firms, fail to meet basic environmental and social standards when…
China has lost around 20 percent glacier coverage between 1970 and 2010, while Tibet has seen a fall of 27.7 percent, research finds. China has lost around a fifth of its glacier ice coverage between…
By Ben Byrne The COP25 climate summit, held in Madrid from December 2-13, was attended by Tempa Gyaltsen Zamlha, a senior research fellow at the Tibet Policy Institute (TPI). Zamhla leads a team of Tibetan…
Dharamshala: Ahead of the COP25 UN Climate Summit to be held in Spain on December 2 -13, 2019, the Central Tibetan Administration launched the 2nd ‘Climate Action for Tibet: The Earth’s Third Pole’ campaign, urging the world leaders…
Gold mining in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) is causing “irreversible environmental damage and poisoning of drinking water sources with cyanide, arsenic, mercury and lead”, according to a new report by the Tibetan Centre for…
By Michael Buckley On Friday, September 20 and 27, students around the world will strike for climate crisis action — joined by adults — with protests planned for hundreds of cities around the world. Tibet…