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'Climatic insurance will be a solution because owners of livestock will know that if they lose a part of their herd, they will be reimbursed by an insurance system and they don’t have to rear vast herds,' Gilles Marion, Mali country director for the UK based charity, Oxfam, told AlertNet in Dakar...

The Malaya Business Insight reports on the recent world mayors summit on climate held in Mexico and the lead role played by the UN global model, Albay Province and Mayor Joey Salceda...

Governments must restore confidence in the negotiation process of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by increasing climate funding and ensuring natural solutions are part of the post-2012 regime, says IUCN...

Turning disaster into opportunity: In October 2010, Cyclone Giri wrecked homes, roads and bridges in Myanmar and Thailand, leaving 100,000 people homeless and twice as many needing humanitarian assistance – forming an apt backdrop for the decision by Asian governments a few days later to recognize disaster risk reduction as a tool for climate change adaptation.

A new climate change and water governance project has been launched at COP16 in Cancun. Strengthening local and national capacities to better manage water and ecosystems will be the project focus in adapting to climate change...

'In Cancun there is an opportunity to find common ground on the establishment of a global climate fund that would help poor people protect themselves from the growing threats of a changing climate' says Honorary President of Oxfam International, former President of Ireland...

The Hindu reports on recent comments by Ghaseem R. Asrar, director of the World Climate Research Programme attending Cop16 in Mexico, stating that the frequency of extreme climate events, their magnitude and extent are increasing and there is enough basis for strong action to enforce mitigation and adaptation measures...

The Global Promotion Committee of International Programme on Landslides (IPL-GPC) has announced a call for the World Centres of Excellence (WCoEs) on Landslide Risk Reduction, which will be identified at the Second World Landslide Forum in Rome on 3-9 October 2011...

43 Caribbean, African and Pacific island states said today, at the UN climate talks in Mexico, that they face 'the end of history' unless action is taken to stop sea levels rising, reports John Vidal for The Guardian...

Farrukh Iqbal Khan, lead negotiator on climate change for Pakistan, takes a looks at the UN climate change talks in Cancun in an editorial for the Guardian...