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It's one of the world's greatest cultural attractions. About 20 million tourists pour through its streets each year and travel its waterways. Venice, Italy, sits at sea level, and any changes in the mean sea level leaves the city open to floods, endangering the artistic and cultural heritage of this 1,000-year old UNESCO world heritage site.

'Money is urgently needed to help the most poor and vulnerable to adapt to Global warming and its effects', says Caritas - who is urging governments to move beyond the lowest common denominator deal in Durban and to use the Rio20+ meeting to deliver a step-change in climate action...

The island nation endeavors towards a new legally binding agreement to operationalise the Green Climate Fund so Small Islands Developing States can start to receive funds to help carry out adaptation work on the ground...

WWF works to create further success stories for the people and biodiversity of the Himalayas, 'We must reinforce our support, and increase our regional adaptation work. This will help make the eastern Himalayas a showcase for the rest of the world'...

The Seoul Metropolitan Government has placed weather-observing video cameras along the nation’s western coast to detect early warning signs and give officials adequate preparation time, after a major snowstorm paralysed Seoul last year...

'After the 3/11 Great East Japan Earthquake, we have learned an important lesson that no prevention plans are perfect as we cannot control the power of nature,' Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Kazuyuki Hamada told the Bangkok Post...

While it was still considered definitely possible to achieve progress at least in the secondary negotiations on the provision of adaptation aid to the countries hardest hit by climate change, 'That no substantial progress was made in developing specific adaptation projects is very disappointing'...

The clear success of this COP has been to mobilize the Green Climate Fund, a new tool to channel climate finance to developing countries. The Fund 'is of huge importance for the adaptation, disaster risk reduction and support work needed at the grassroots level'...

The water community came together to send a strong message to climate change negotiators: with or without a formal agreement in the COP, we're already adapting to and mitigating climate change...

Le Plan de prévention des risques de mouvements de terrains, PPRMT, est une nouvelle réglementation actuellement préparée par l'Etat visant à encadrer les constructions dans les secteurs sensibles où les terrains sont très argileux...