Allianz Knowledge / Latest News Articles http://knowledge.allianz.com An Indonesia-based study is showing carbon-rich tropical peat lands trap more greenhouse gases than first thought, driving up their potential value on the carbon market and strengthening the case for their protection. /en/news/viewdetail/peat_lands_carbon_market.html /en/news/viewdetail/peat_lands_carbon_market.html China is fighting malaria not on its own soil, where the deadly disease has been sharply pruned back, but in Africa, where it is forging new diplomatic and economic relations. /en/news/viewdetail/malaria_china_africa_drugs.html /en/news/viewdetail/malaria_china_africa_drugs.html Spectators, media and sponsors planning to attend next year's Winter Olympics in Vancouver will be under pressure to offset their carbon emissions, organizers said. /en/news/viewdetail/olypmic_games_vancouver_carbon_offset.html /en/news/viewdetail/olypmic_games_vancouver_carbon_offset.html A UN conference in Copenhagen in December is due to agree a new pact to combat global warming after mounting evidence that human activity is disrupting the climate. The following is a timeline of the discovery of global warming. /en/news/viewdetail/timeline_global_warming_greenhouse_effect.html /en/news/viewdetail/timeline_global_warming_greenhouse_effect.html A U.N. scheme initially shunned by investors as too risky is now pulling them in to help achieve dramatic cuts in carbon emissions in developing countries and improve the livelihoods of millions of people. /en/news/viewdetail/un_carbon_offset_scheme.html /en/news/viewdetail/un_carbon_offset_scheme.html The global economic recession has not curbed the desire of the world's poor to seek a better future by migrating, Gallup Inc. said after carrying out a worldwide poll. /en/news/viewdetail/econeomic_crises_migration_immigration.html /en/news/viewdetail/econeomic_crises_migration_immigration.html African nations boycotted U.N. climate talks on Tuesday in a protest to urge rich countries to set deeper 2020 cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. /en/news/viewdetail/africa_boycotss_un_talks.html /en/news/viewdetail/africa_boycotss_un_talks.html The Maldives could achieve its aim of becoming carbon neutral well before its 2020 target, the Indian Ocean island nation's president said. /en/news/viewdetail/maldives_carbon_neutral_goal_2020.html /en/news/viewdetail/maldives_carbon_neutral_goal_2020.html The mysterious people who etched the "Nazca Lines" across deserts in Peru hastened their own demise by clearing forests 1,500 years ago, according to a Cambridge University study. /en/news/viewdetail/nazca_deforestation_arid.html /en/news/viewdetail/nazca_deforestation_arid.html Nearly a million people die from malaria each year because they cannot afford the most effective treatment and instead often buy old drugs to which the malaria parasite has become resistant, researchers said. /en/news/viewdetail/malaria_drugs_expensive_millions_die.html /en/news/viewdetail/malaria_drugs_expensive_millions_die.html