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Philippines is having to adapt and adjust to rapidly deteriorating climatic trends at a great cost to its economy, reports the Guardian. Benito Ramos, the outgoing executive director of the NDRRMC asserts: 'We are mainstreaming climate change in all government departments and policies. If we don't adapt and adjust, we all agree we are heading for disaster.'...

Jo Confino, executive editor of the Guardian and chairman and editorial director of Guardian Sustainable Business, speaks to Christiana Figueres, executive secretary at the UNFCCC, about the response of business and governments to the climate change agenda...

As major infrastructure of megacities is increasingly exposed to worsening natural disasters, 'storms are no longer an interruption to business as usual that you get over and move on from, but are a systemic risk to economic development,' warns Vinod Thomas, director general of the Asian Development Bank...

'Regardless of the pace of international negotiations, Asia must act now – as neglecting these threats will put millions of the region's most vulnerable people at increased risk of increased poverty, ill health and premature death. We need to mobilise massive funds for climate change adaptation,' said the Asian Development Bank's VP...

An EU programme called the l'Alliance Globale pour l'Initiative Resilience Sahel (Agir-Sahel), which was launched in June, aims to build resilience in the Sahel region by improving access to food, enhancing early warning systems and promoting regional co-operation...

In connection with the 18th Conference of the Parties climate conference that will be taking place in Doha, Quatar, Helen Clark, head of the UN Development Programme and other experts are to host a live chat on the website of the Guardian...

The group of climate change advocates suggestions include new building codes, moving power lines below ground, wetland restoration, flood barriers, sea gates and the possible relocation of some coastal communities...