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Tuvalu’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Enele Sopoaga, has urged the climate change Adaptation Fund Board to provide greater capacity building for islands that are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change...
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme
'Adequate coastal management interventions such as those supported by the Bank in Barbados, show that it is possible to achieve positive synergies between the disaster risk prevention and mitigation and a strategic sector such as tourism, to maximize the economic benefits for the country,' according to Héctor Malarín, Chief of Environment, Rural Development and Disaster Risk Management at the IDB...
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
A new report to be launched by PricewaterhouseCoopers at the UN Climate Summit in Cancun this week advises governments to improve their climate change adaptation to deliver 'coherent national adaptation plans' as noted by Richard Gledhill, PwC head for climate change services, reports Lucas Gilmore of inAudit...
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Recent research by Plan examining how girls are affected by climate change will be discussed at the 'Bearers of Future Responsibility' event taking place this week in Cancun, Mexico at the UN climate change talks...
Plan International headquarters
NewMarket Technology reports that the acquisitions follow the Greenfield Partnership Program Trade Mission and Private Sector Disaster Risk Reduction Pilot Program held in Kenya last October. The pilot programme is intended to urge private sector innovation and investment aimed at reducing disaster risk...
NewMarket Technology
'One thing that the world can do is to help people adapt to changing weather patterns, help governments prepare strategies to deal with the shocks that climate can cause', reports Martin Penner of WFP. 'WFP can help because it has sophisticated tools to help governments and communities watch for early signs of natural hazards...'
World Food Programme
Pacific environmental advisor Espen Ronneberg says that although fast start financing was promised at the climate conference in Copenhagen last year, the Pacific has actually been delivered very little, reports Radio New Zealand...
Radio New Zealand International
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar of Nepal recently opened the Nepal Climate Change Knowledge Management Centre at the Nepal Academy of Science and Technology, marking the center as an important base to advance climate studies and bring awareness of its impending impacts on livelihoods and ecosystem as a whole...
Nepal Academy of Science and Technology
Kisumu, Kenya – Kisumu, the third largest city in Kenya will join the UNISDR-led campaign “Making Cities Resilient -- My city is getting ready!” at a ceremony on 8 December, adding to the list of over 150 other municipalities worldwide. Kisumu is the leading communication and trading centre for countries of the Great Lakes Region that includes Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. Like many cities in Africa, Kisumu is vulnerable to risks brought by climate change, which coupled with rapid urban growth, will pose mounting challenges for the local government as it seeks to protect citizens from disaster.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Africa
The '1st School Hydrological Information Network' (SHINE) conference, an innovative programme geared towards enhancing disaster awareness among students, preventing the loss of life, and protecting property by achieving and maintaining high-level school preparedness, was launched today by the Provincial Government of Bulacan...
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