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'New Zealand should be one of the developed countries that’s a leader in terms of getting that [adaptation] fund going. It should be a leader in terms of not just raiding its aid budget for those funds but coming up with new money for that purpose' said New Zealand politician of Pacific descent, Charles Chauvel, in a report by Radio New Zealand...

Bolivia's UN ambassador Pablo Solon responds to the refrain pervading the media and some negotiators at the UN climate change talks in Mexico of 'low expectations'. 'We have the highest expectations from Cancún, because nothing less than the future of our grandchildren and our planet depends on it' he writes...

Devastating changes to sea levels, rainfall, water supplies, weather systems and crop yields are increasingly likely before the end of the century, scientists will warn tomorrow with the release of a special report at the UN climate talks in Mexico, reports the Guardian UK...

On December 4 and 5, in over twenty locations around the world, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, NASA and The World Bank will host the third Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) to create software solutions that can help mitigate or respond to disasters around the world and help save lives...

The world will be taken by surprise by the relentless pace of migration unless States, international organizations and civil society make a concerted effort to invest in how they respond to it, says the World Migration Report (WMR) 2010 launched today by the International Organization for Migration (IOM)...

'Environmental migration will have to jostle for position with a host of other climate change concerns, and pushing it back up the agenda looks set to be a fairly tough challenge' reports Megan Rowling for Reuters AlertNet, on the first day of the UN climate talks in Cancun...

A new study warns of the potential problems Africa faces from rising temperatures. The Nairobi-based International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) says the continent must learn to adapt to shorter growing seasons reports VOA...

As the world’s climate officials descend on Cancun today to begin addressing the causes and consequences of climate change, they would do well to recall the words of fellow government officials sitting in the UN General Assembly in New York: “we must do more to build resilience and mitigate the impact of climate-related disasters.”

The Asian Consultative Meeting for Parliamentarians concluded at the weekend, with an agreement by Asian lawmakers to undertake legislation and other concrete measures towards disaster-resilient development, according to the Inquirer...

In the first of a four-part video series on climate change in Ecuador and Peru, the Guardian's John Vidal takes us through the snow-capped peaks of the Andes, where the Cayambe mountain glaciers are melting. In the hills below, farmers are struggling with the effects of changing weather systems...