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As the world prepares for the Cancún summit, the Guardian UK's John Vidal visits people on the frontline of climate change, in the Andes mountains of Peru and Ecuador, to see how communities and governments are trying to adapt...

The Asian Development Bank has joined forces with an Australian company to investigate climate change and provide direction on climate change strategies across the Pacific reports the Australian Network News...

Money to help countries adapt to climate change could be a key deal breaker when the two-week UN conference gets underway on 29 November in Cancun, Mexico, say climate policy experts in a report by IRIN...

Delegates gathering for UN climate talks in Mexico must consider the disproportionate impact that climate change has on poor people in their negotiations on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol arrangements, Asian Development Bank (ADB) Vice-President Ursula Schaefer-Preuss said today...

The Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities launched its 'Depensa! Di ako patatalo sa nagbabagong klima,' campaign aimed at increasing public awareness on the issue of climate change and supporting to the People's Survival Fund (PSF) bill...

The CCDRM Fund is helping poor communities to design and implement DRR projects through community self-help and partnerships. 'It is becoming clearer that the first steps to climate change adaptation must be adaptation to the current climatic extremes' Fund coordinator Leslie Walling told IPS...

Hundreds of people who lost their homes during ethnic clashes in southern Kyrgyzstan in June are moving into new earthquake-resistant "transitional" dwellings: about 2,000 will be completed by the end of November, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)...

Ahead of the UN climate change conference in Cancun, Mexico, the UN top official for disaster risk reduction, Margareta Wahlström, appointed the mayor of Mexico City, Marcelo Ebrard, as champion of the 'Making Cities Resilient' campaign, at a ceremony during the World Mayors Summit on Climate in Mexico City, reports Hispanically Speaking news agency...