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A climate change adaptation programme was implemented by the Ho Chi Minh City Steering Committee for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation on Friday with support from the Netherlands' Rotterdam City...

'From the Horn of Africa and South East Asia to Russia and Afghanistan, a year of floods, droughts, and extreme heat has helped push tens of millions of people into hunger and poverty. Governments must act now in Durban'...

This Oxfam media brief documents some of the devastating impacts extreme weather events have had on global, regional and local food security in 2010-11, with severe consequences for the precarious lives and livelihoods of people in poverty. The failure to

The state Commissioner for Youths and Sports, Mr Adedapo Lam-Adesina has stated that the recent flood disaster which ravaged Nigeria was one of the main motivations to introduce a disaster management training...

An official of the Zambian Government, Nkandu Luo, expressed that all Africans should cooperate as one since severe weather challenges are shared by all poor nations during the 17th Conference of Parties (COP 17)...

'Finishing the task from Cancun means translating policy into concrete action', and this includes launching the adaptation committee, approving the modalities and guidelines for national adaptation plans and progress on approaches to address loss and damages...

It's one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. Over the last twenty years a yearly average of some four million people have been affected by disasters in the Philippines each year and over 33,000 people have lost their lives in 363 major reported events.

This handbook was produced for journalists to shun bad reporting on pastoralism with pastoralists being potrayed either as victims or noble warriors, but instead potray them as one of the most productive economic groups in the region. It asserts that