News and announcements

Canada's Environment Minister, the Honourable Peter Kent, and Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) today announced seven winning projects from across Africa that will support important and innovative initiatives to better equip the African continent to deal with the effects of climate change...

Namibia has launched national climate change policy to guide efforts to adapt and mitigate the impact of climate change in the country, reports Africa News. Namibia is obliged to submit mandatory periodic reports in the form of 'national communications', which it will submit at COP 17 in Durban, next week...

David Kamien, CEO of Mind-Alliance comments, 'We are dedicated to supporting the goals of the UNISDR by enhancing the flow of information needed to manage and reduce risk.'...

'We are taking all the existing and new information and using a consistent methodology to produce liquefaction hazard information, which will be useful not only for building consenting, but also for infrastructure asset'...

'Our growing experience of working with vulnerable communities to address climate change in 34 countries demonstrates the key role local communities, and women, play in adapting and strengthening resilience to climate change impacts'...

United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, writes for the Financial Times about the importance that disaster risk management must be given in countries...

Neva Khan, Country Director of Oxfam GB has declared to Business Recorder that Oxfam is 'in the business of encouraging change in mindsets and attitudes to achieve development in areas which need it the most'...

Despite the goal set at the Cancun climate talks last year to stabilize the global average temperature increase at 2°C, a forthcoming report of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) 'Environmental Outlook to 2050' warns that global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions continue to increase.