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Women pushed into 'tight corner' by climate change

Women are likely to bear the heaviest brunt of the impacts of climate change due to their dependence on agriculture for their livelihoods, gender roles that increase their responsibilities for providing water, fuel and good sanitation for their families, and their limited access to information on climate change...

Gender Links, Gender and Media Diversity Centre
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Americans report feeling impact of climate change

A new study finds that 51 percent of Americans believe that extreme weather will cause a natural disaster in their own community in the next year.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
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Vietnam's mangroves trees threatened by rising tide of deforestation

"In Aceh, after the tsunami, the result wouldn't have been like this, if we still had mangroves," said Daniel Murdiyarso, a scientist with the Indonesia-based Centre for International Forestry Research.

Guardian, the (UK)
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New South Asia network to tackle 'massive' climate adaptation challenge

The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security South Asia has established a regional learning platform called 'Climate Smart Agriculture Learning Platform for South Asia' to provide a forum for multi-sectoral climate smart learning to scientists, policy planners, civil society, and farmers in South Asia...

Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security
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Researchers, farmers and policy makers to collaborate on 'massive' climate adaptation challenge for South Asia

'There is an increasing amount of data and scientific analysis available on projected changes in climate, observed and expected impacts on agriculture, and best practices for adaptation,' said Pramod Aggarwal, CCAFS regional program leader for South Asia...

Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security
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'What you will hear from the UN is more and more requests to contribute to world affairs'

UNISDR chief Margareta Wahlstrom said of Bangladesh, 'You have to have a good preparedness and response system. That is necessary, but there is also a lot to do when it comes to development planning, investment in safer infrastructure and reducing risk factors'...

Daily Star, the - Bangladesh
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Caucasus region facing climate change problems

'Non of the country in our region have a long term policy on integrated water resource management. In most cases there aren’t any disaster risk reduction and prevention strategy and action plan,' said the Executive Director of Regional Environmental Center of the Caucasus...

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When bracing for future disasters, look to the past

'If there is a strong earthquake, leave anything you are doing and run to higher ground.' But that lesson has not been shared totally - and has to be relearned,' said Hatsuhisa Takashi-ma, former Ministry of Foreign Affairs press secretary...

New Straits Times, the