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The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security South Asia has established a regional learning platform called 'Climate Smart Agriculture Learning Platform for South Asia' to provide a forum for multi-sectoral climate smart learning to scientists, policy planners, civil society, and farmers in South Asia...

'Non of the country in our region have a long term policy on integrated water resource management. In most cases there aren’t any disaster risk reduction and prevention strategy and action plan,' said the Executive Director of Regional Environmental Center of the Caucasus...

'If there is a strong earthquake, leave anything you are doing and run to higher ground.' But that lesson has not been shared totally - and has to be relearned,' said Hatsuhisa Takashi-ma, former Ministry of Foreign Affairs press secretary...

UNISDR chief Margareta Wahlstrom said of Bangladesh, 'You have to have a good preparedness and response system. That is necessary, but there is also a lot to do when it comes to development planning, investment in safer infrastructure and reducing risk factors'...

'We will need to cooperate with the UN and the East Asia Summit, to offer timely help to ASEAN member countries when disaster hits,'said Viboon Sanguanpong, general director of Thailand’s Ministry of Interior’s Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation...

US Sen. Gillibrand has urged the federal government to invest in both National Pre-Disaster Mitigation and FEMA’s Disaster Relief funds. 'These investments save federal dollars in the long term, as federal studies have shown that for every dollar spent on pre-disaster mitigation, three dollars are saved in disaster recovery costs,' she said...

'Nova Scotians need to prepare for the realities of climate change,' said Environment Minister Sterling Belliveau. 'Through this fund, we're encouraging community-based projects that help adapt to our changing climate.' The deadline for applications is June 22...

At the start of a week-long trip to Cambodia, the UN's senior official for disaster risk reduction, Margareta Wahlström, met yesterday with a 64-year-old grandmother who saved the lives of her five grandchildren during last year's heavy monsoon rains.

To improve preparedness, the Indonesian government has pledged to fund the improvement of critical infrastructure, and to increase the number of shelters and tsunami detection devices...

The Director General of NEMA has said the essence of the collaboration is in realization of the implementation of the Hyogo Framework of Action, the African Regional Strategy and its Plan of Action 2006–2015 and the ECOWAS Policy on Disaster Risk Reduction and the need to implement this at the National level...