'Vietnam's Danang starts small to adapt to climate change'
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As part of its $50 million climate change adaptation work in Asian cities, the Rockefeller Foundation, looking to fund small-scale climate change adaptation projects, has provided for winches to drag fishermen's boats safely ashore, and set up a radio disaster warning system for 450 fishing boats to receive weather forecasts in the fishing village of Danang, reports Reuters AlertNet.
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