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A new global survey of 700 top business executives undertaken by the Economist Intelligence Unit on behalf of UK Trade & Investment, has found that almost two thirds of businesses now regard climate change and the need for adaptation measures as a commercial opportunity, as 90 per cent admit suffering from climate impacts reports Business Green...

Professor Judi Wakhungu, lead researcher and executive director of the African Centre for Technology Studies speaks to Zukiswa Zimela for IPS on the Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change project which is gathering data and case studies of adaptation to provide policy makers with technical and scientific evidence to guide them...

'It is not enough that the government as an institution is prepared because no matter how up-to-date or high-tech the disaster prevention mechanisms are, they would be ineffective if the public remains uninformed or misinformed of what they have to do during disasters' said Senator Loren Legarda...

Eight of Muntinlupa City’s nine barangays have a 'high potential' for liquefaction should a strong earthquake hit Metro Manila, Oscar Oquendo head of the city’s disaster reduction management council told The Star yesterday, citing a Metro Manila Earthquake Impact Reduction Study...

Several high-level African delegates will attend the inaugural meeting of the Reconstituted African Working Group on Disaster Risk Reduction in Nairobi, Kenya from 29 - 31 March 2011. The meeting follows the endorsement of the Report of the Second African Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction by the Executive Council of the African Union. This inaugural meeting will agree on the Terms of Reference of the Group as well as the Africa position paper to be presented during the Third Session of the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction in May 2011.

The World Reconstruction Conference has launched a discussion forum ahead of the conference which will take place as part of the Global Platform for Disaster Reduction, in Geneva, Switzerland from 10-13 May 2011. Share your knowledge and experience at the WRC Discussion Forum...

The Swiss government is the first in Europe to officially change its nuclear power policy in response to the disaster in Japan, reports the BBC. 'In the past, it's a fact, we underestimated the risk of earthquakes,' Georg Schwarz, deputy director of the Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate, told Swiss television...

The capacity for mitigating the impact of events such as the multiple crises in Japan is increasing dramatically, but governments and the UN system are failing to take the right course of action. Japan's agony offers us key lessons as the world faces a future of increasing vulnerability, asserts Dr. Randolph Kent in an AlertNet report...

There are already three important lessons to be learnt from Japan's nuclear scare and the devastating effects of the earthquake and tsunami: the first concerns preparedness, or lack of it; the next lesson comes from the leaking nuclear power plants; and the third lesson, then, comes from the public reaction to Fukushima, reports the Telegraph...

Approximately 45 participants including local youth, women and PRIs, gathered for the Udyama World Water Day event organized for the first time in Alanda G.P of Bongmunda Block of Titlagada, one of the most water shortage and drought prone areas, facing high temperatures and affected by climatic chaos...