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It is crucial to find a way to meld the macro-level diplomacy of the Conference of the Parties summit with the practical, micro-level solutions needed to protect agricultural communities and their crops from the effects of climate change...

Water experts say that establishing water as an agenda item in its own right in climate change negotiations will lead to a greater focus on developing policy, and attract more resources into the water sector through adaptation programs...

'Africa's priority on climate change is adaptation. Now the issue is to get access to finance to really to make sure that adaptation plans are really implemented,' said AfDB Climate Change director Al-Hamdou Dorsouma...

'Children should be active participants in DRR effort. At home or at school they should know how to protect themselves during natural calamities like earthquakes, floods and cyclone,' said Margarita Tileva, chief, emergency solution UNICEF...

The study calls for more investments in climate change adaptation policies to prevent conflict in the region, adding pressure on governments to reach a new international climate agreement in Durban...

The objective is to protect small farmers and day labourers from losing their livelihoods due to the impact of a hurricane or a flood by offering microinsurance and other risk transfer solutions linked with disaster risk reduction and risk management...

The discovery helps explain how tsunamis can cross ocean basins to cause massive destruction at some locations while leaving others unscathed. The data raise hope that scientists may be able to improve tsunami forecasts...

'When I discovered that similar natural disasters are happening in other countries, I realized, like others, I am also a victim. So I asked myself, why wait for these disasters to occur and take us by surprise again?'...

In their opinion for the Jakarta Post, Jonatan A. Lassa and Syamsidik present the Indonesian efforts to create a new and stronger research institution in disaster risk science following the tsunami in Aceh, namely the TDMRC (Tsunami and Disaster Mitigation Research Center)...

'Adaptation is a new business and no one has done it before. Africa should take the lead in this area and in the future, it will sell this expertise to the rest of the world,' said Dr. Saleemul Huq, from the International Institute of Environment and Development...