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Due to climate change induced sea level rise and salination, Kiribati has to prepare for the eventuality that rising sea levels may render it uninhabitable by the 2050s, said President Anote Tong. The Pacific nation is holding a national public hearing on climate change in a bid to provide the country's residents with information on the issue of climate change and their responsibilities...

Jamie Hanson of the Conservation Council of WA has urged the government of the Western Australia to help the region's farmers adapt to climate change. 'They actually really need to start coming up with adaptation strategies to help these communities deal with the impacts of climate change,' he told ABC...

'To help identify mostly small infrastructure that would need assistance to make them more climate resilient, and working in disaster preparation, prevention and response,' USAID's mission director for the Pacific Islands, Gloria Steele told Radio Australia's Pacific Beat...

Following the recent floods in Eastern Australia, Barbara Norman concludes in her opinion piece on ABC that "We are clearly not managing the impacts of extreme weather today let alone what we may be facing with climate change in the future.' She suggests better urban growth planning to mimimise future damages...

Residents and authorities should be prepared for the risk that climate change induced sea level rise is threatening to flood $300 billion worth of property and infrastructure, warned scientists. The Australian government has developed sea level rise maps for scenarios of 05.m, 0.8m, as well as 1.1m...

'Across most of southern Australia, the projections of the future are for warmer and drier conditions, so when we experience warm and dry conditions, growing those crops, canola, wheat, barley, etc. will be more challenging in the future,' said CSIRO climate applications scientist Steve Crimp...

'If the land sinking isn't resolved, then there will be widespread tidal waves that would cause more extensive flooding in Jakarta,' said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, an expert hydrologist with the National Disaster Mitigation Agency...

A new scientific collaboration between the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and Vietnam's Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Environment, supported by Ausaid will help Vietnam to develop local models to fight the impacts of climate change, such as sea level rise, increasing temperatures and humidity...