Food security and agriculture

'This report reinforces the reality that today’s climate volatility affects everything we do,' said Rachel Kyte, the Bank’s Vice President for Sustainable Development. 'We will redouble our efforts to build adaptive capacity and resilience, as well as find solutions to the climate challenge'...

UNISDR Chief Margareta Wahlstrom spoke to the opening session of this week's extraordinary session of the World Meteorological Congress which is discussing the implementation plan and governance model for the Global Framework for Climate Services.

This booklet reveals and explains the linkages between people and the environment in the Balkans. As part of the present risks intensified by climate warming, it considers forest fires, desertification, drought and heat waves, decreasing farming

'Weather, climate and the water cycle know no borders. This project will make a very important contribution to strengthening regional capacity to meet present and future risks and adapt to climate variability and change,' said WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud...

Rural indigenous communities in the southern Andean highlands of Peru's Cuzco and Apurímac regions have been hit hard by climate change. Endemic poverty has meant that these remote communities cannot afford a bad harvest. Yet in recent years sudden changes in weather are impacting traditional crops...

'Temperatures could increase up to 4°C in Arabunna country in the next century, said the study’s author, Dr John Tibby. 'My report suggests that climate may change in a series of ‘jumps’ rather than in a gradual manner, hence the need to make plans to adapt to this risk.'...

'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...

'This can be a tremendous tool helping decision makers to choose the best solutions to the benefit of their citizens. We are too bad at sharing best practices as well as information on what not to do. This new interactive tool will make efforts much more efficient,' said Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for Climate Action...