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On the occasion of the launch of the World Meteorological Organisation report at the UN Climate talks in Mexico which highlights that 2010 is on track to be one of the hottest years since modern records began and possibly the hottest, Simon Lauder interviews Michel Jarraud, WMO secretary-general for ABC...
'The Pacific simply cannot solve some of the problems it's facing' said Margareta Wahlstrom, the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative on Disaster Risk Reduction, in an interview with Radio Australia. 'It requires a change of climate policies globally to really help them and involve them in the solutions...
The Asian Development Bank has joined forces with an Australian company to investigate climate change and provide direction on climate change strategies across the Pacific reports the Australian Network News...
With climate change, population growth and food shortages predicted, our cities will need to adapt to a difficult future says John Stanley, Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at the University of Sydney...
Tuvalu's new prime minister answers Radio Australia's questions on the approach he will take to climate change, saying adaptation actions to counter climate change impacts are already being witnessed in Tuvalu...
A new mathematical model using seismic wave recordings to accurately map earthquakes and underground fault lines has been discovered by Australian seismologists. According to ABC News, scientists say the discovery could help save lives and property...
A recently-released study, funded by the Australian government's development agency, AusAid, looks at how to minimise the impact of disasters on communities. The study uses Samoa and Fiji as case studies, and the first of a series of workshops to present the findings has taken place in Suva...
Sen Lam of Radio Australia interviewed Saroj Kumar Jha, programme manager for the UN-affiliated Global Facility for Disaster Reduction & Recovery disaster, on preparedness for natural hazards and disaster risk reduction efforts worldwide, and in Chile and Bangladesh...
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