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Committing funds to climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies in developing countries will lead to a safer, healthier and prosperous world for all, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told delegates at the United Nations climate change conference in Cancún today, urging them to find ways of raising the required resources...
United Nations News Centre
Competition between United Nations agencies for limited funds, sometimes involving donors, hampered the UN in responding cohesively as 'one organization' to help countries develop climate change programmes according to a senior official, reports IRIN - highlighting UN work to reduce climate risks and food insecurity...
The New Humanitarian
Assoc Prof Jane McAdam contests recent claims by The Observer that extensive migration due to the impact of climate change will happen within the next century. Her concern is that an absence of rigorous analysis and empirical evidence to support claims may lead to a backlash and attempts to discredit the phenomenon of climate change-related human movement altogether...
Sydney Morning Herald, Fairfax Digital Network
'Climate change is the issue of survival not only in Vanuatu but in all Pacific islands. Their successful adaptation will require investments much larger in scale than one village at a time' says Ajay Chhibber, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, Assistant Administrator of the UN Development Programme and Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific...
United Nations Development Programme - Pacific Centre
Dr. Wolf Forstreuter, Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission's (SOPAC) GIS and Remote Sensing Unit Specialist, said that there were a number of applications that would be of 'significant benefit to the countries once they had a better understanding of how to utilize satellite image data.'...
Secretariat of the Pacific Community
The Prime Minister of Tuvalu will be taking a hard line on negotiations at the UN climate conference in Cancun to try and save his people, their culture, land and identity. 'I believe that we can work together to sort out the issues and the impacts emanating from climate change and I think the idea is to save Tuvalu and all other low lying countries in the world' he said...
Secretariat of the Pacific Community
Community-based projects to enhance resilience of hazard-prone Pacific island countries have grown in number over the past 20 years. Some university studies have shown that benefits were particularly apparent in cases where development bodies worked with communities to identify risks using local knowledge.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Calling for 'special differential treatment' for the Small Island Developing States in the development process, Mr Golding said the catastrophic effect of disasters upon them must never be underestimated, citing Grenada as an example of an economy which had been showing significant growth over a 10 year period which was all destroyed in just 2 hours by Hurricane Ivan...
Jamaica Information Service
'Adaptation to climate change is no longer the exclusive ambit of the public sector. Investment in adaptation makes business sense, due both to the need for companies to climate-proof their operations, as well as to the new business opportunities opening in the area of adaptation' said Christiana Figueres commenting on a report released by PwC...
Financial, the, Business News & Multimedia
After massive floods affected over three million families and caused around 30 billion baht in losses, the Thai Finance Minister has stressed the urgent need for prevention programmes in the country. ADPC urged govt as well, saying 'The country's economic plans should include disaster prevention plans', reports the Bangkok Post...
Bangkok Post - Post Publishing Public Company Limited, the

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