Governance

According to Bangladesh's disaster management minister Abdur Razzaq, work on identifying the buildings 'at risk' in Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet, is now underway. 'What is most urgently needed is a well-concerted coordination framework...'

'All development now will have to factor in how to adapt to the changing climate by erecting homes away from flood zones and hurricane-proofing buildings, among other measures' said Lucy Stone, Climate Change Project Manager for UNICEF...

This White Paper sets out a framework to reduce the European Union’s vulnerability to the impact of climate change. It outlines the need to create a clearing house mechanism by 2011 where information on climate change risks, impacts and best practices

For the world’s governments to understand adequately how their actions and policies are impacting the planet’s species and ecosystems, more investment is needed in the set of biodiversity indicators that has been developed to measure these impacts...

This report explores climate change impacts on South Africa and the South African government’s response to climate change. In particular, it is concerned with understanding government’s focus in terms of various imperatives - pro-growth, proeconomic

In view of the climate change challenges, this paper aims to outline a possible framework for an agreement on adaptation. It highlights several issues that need to be recognised and clarified to make such an agreement effective and in the process, it also

Specialists studying the likelihood of population movements due to climate change effects offer widely divergent predictions. But most agree policymakers must understand that migration is a vital coping mechanism for at-risk populations and must do more to help destination hubs prepare...

A communiqué from a special meeting of foreign ministers from the Caribbean region, this week, urged 'that the Working Group on adaptation within the climate change negotiations keep disaster risk reduction issues as a central part of its discussions'...