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'In Rio, climate change has been sidelined. Yet, without tackling climate change we will never achieve a development that is fair and sustainable for poor people,' said Kit Vaughan, CARE’s Climate Change Advocacy Coordinator...

'While this rising temperature poses problems for the suitability of food staples like bean, banana and sorghum, cassava suitability is likely to be the exception to the rule... Research shows that it will brush off the higher temperatures,' said Andy Jarvis, a climate change scientist at the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture...

This New Security Beat article discovers the linkages and compares two efforts that aim to help the development of poor communities and sustain their natural resources and environmental services: human population, health, and the environment and climate change adaptation...

'Does it have to take a hat-trick of floods for the citizens and government to realise that lightning can and does strike at the same place more than twice in Pakistan?' asks the Business Recorder, recalling the recurrence of last year's floods. 'While the realisation may be hitting in, theres still a lot that needs to be done...'

'Modernizing the SMN forms part of the Federal Government’s efforts to adapt to climate change, a global phenomenon that is generating serious challenges for Mexico, such as increasingly longer drought periods, as well as increasingly severe cyclones and hurricanes,' said General Director of the National Water Commission...

The undertaking, which commenced in October 2010, aims to increase Jamaica’s resilience to natural hazards, while reducing the associated risks in vulnerable areas, thereby contributing to national development. Funding is being jointly provided by the Government of Jamaica and the European Union (EU)...

Plans to prevent winter flooding were announced by the city of Cape Town yesterday, reports the New Age. The city's disaster risk management centre had also entered into an agreement with the neighbouring Swartland municipality to institute the early warning system. Information in local languages is also being distributed, particularly to the homeless...

'This is a very enriching training,' said senior science research specialist Cynthia Gayya. 'At the end of this training, they are expected to be informed and capacitated, and would know how to formulate disaster risk reduction action plan in their respective schools,' she added.