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'We need the Mozambican government, with the help of UN partners such as FAO, or NGOs such as the Red Cross and national weather services, to be able to interpret weather information [so that it] will help [farmers] to make a decision on how to adapt,' said Jan Egeland from the UN High-level Taskforce charged with developing guidelines for disseminating climate information. ...

In a report to the plenary session of the 3rd day of the Cancun conference of the Parties, Adaptation Fund Board Chair Farrukh Khan announced that the Adaptation Fund Board had become operational...

Addressing poverty is the “single best way” to help developing countries adapt to climate change, according to a new report from IFPRI, the International Food policy Research Institute.

On the occasion of the launch of the World Meteorological Organisation report at the UN Climate talks in Mexico which highlights that 2010 is on track to be one of the hottest years since modern records began and possibly the hottest, Simon Lauder interviews Michel Jarraud, WMO secretary-general for ABC...

The year 2010 is almost certain to rank in the top three warmest years since the beginning of instrumental climate records in 1850, according to data sources compiled by the World Meteorological Organization...

Developing countries should establish national policies that encourage private investment in mitigation and adaptation, and governments in food deficit countries should increase the share of agriculture in their national budgets from their current levels to at least 10 percent, according to FAO...

'Natural hazards are inevitable, but disasters can be prevented when the proper programs and measures are institutionalized, I am glad that from the national budget for 2011, we have allocated more than two percent for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction' said Senator Loren Legarda...

In an editorial for the Guardian, Marcus Stephen, president of the pacific island of Nauru, says that the predicament facing the Pacific's low-lying states is shared the world over and stresses that 'a failure to do what is necessary to protect us now will eventually doom all of humanity to a similar fate'...

'A major earthquake in the LA region is not a question of if, but when,' said Tom Murayama, Director of Office of Statewide Operations for the California Emergency Management Agency at a symposium on earthquakes held this week at the University of California, Los Angeles...

A recent report carried out by the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) concludes it would be more 'cost effective' for states to address climate change by focusing on disaster prevention and adaptation sooner rather than later...