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'Lo que vemos es que puede marcar un punto de partida de cómo se prepara El Salvador y la región Centroamericana, para que recurrentemente vaya mejorando su capacidad de respuesta y adaptación al cambio climático'...

Extreme weather events, such as the recent flooding in Pakistan and the decades-long drought in east Africa, are wake-up calls, 'These events show that we need more than disaster management – we need to make a move towards scientific adaptation'...

The President of the African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuka, told a major forum at the COP17 talks in Durban yesterday that ”failing to fund climate change is failing to fund poverty reduction.”

Germany and Denmark have pledged to contribute nearly €55m to the Green Climate Fund, a pot of money that will finance mitigation, adaptation and new technology in poor countries hit by climate change...

'The need for enhanced cross-sectoral partnerships and rapid learning to promote integrated approaches to adaptation must be recognized if we are to enhance adaptation thinking and practice'...

A government panel investigating the Fukushima nuclear crisis will highlight in its report that measures could have been taken to prevent the tsunami from damaging the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, reports the Japan Times...

'Countries should improve their disaster preparedness and response capacities with a special focus on employment and social policies to address natural disasters and reconstruction'...

'The sharp increase in the budget reflects the government's strong will to better deal with disasters so as to protect lives and property of the people,' Yook Dong-han, the vice minister of the Prime Minister's Office said...

A fund worth VNÑ8.4 billion (US$403,200), supported by a donation from the US-based Institute of Social and Environmental Transition, will be used to implement a natural disaster prevention plan, reports Viet Nam News...

Older people's experiences of disasters and their knowledge of coping mechanisms can be essential when developing local disaster risk reduction and adaptation plans...