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Researchers have for the first time quantified the part climate change played in increasing the risk of a severe flood, reports Damian Carrington for The Guardian UK. 'It shows climate change is acting here and now to load the dice towards more extreme weather' said Myles Allen of Oxford University in a report by The Guardian UK...
Chris Smith, the head of the UK's Environment Agency has warned the country's businesses that they are poorly prepared for the impacts of climate change and has advised them to draw up plans for adaptation or face severe turmoil in the decades ahead, reports The Guardian...
More than 800 lives were lost after heavy rains in January 2011 caused mudslides in Teresópolis, Rio de Janeiro state. 'Our cities are very insecure because of the failure to apply urban planning' says Celso Carvalho, the national secretary of urban programmes, in a report by Natalia Viana for the Guardian UK...
In an editorial for the Guardian, Marcus Stephen, president of the pacific island of Nauru, says that the predicament facing the Pacific's low-lying states is shared the world over and stresses that 'a failure to do what is necessary to protect us now will eventually doom all of humanity to a similar fate'...
43 Caribbean, African and Pacific island states said today, at the UN climate talks in Mexico, that they face 'the end of history' unless action is taken to stop sea levels rising, reports John Vidal for The Guardian...
Farrukh Iqbal Khan, lead negotiator on climate change for Pakistan, takes a looks at the UN climate change talks in Cancun in an editorial for the Guardian...
Devastating changes to sea levels, rainfall, water supplies, weather systems and crop yields are increasingly likely before the end of the century, scientists will warn tomorrow with the release of a special report at the UN climate talks in Mexico, reports the Guardian UK...
Bolivia's UN ambassador Pablo Solon responds to the refrain pervading the media and some negotiators at the UN climate change talks in Mexico of 'low expectations'. 'We have the highest expectations from Cancún, because nothing less than the future of our grandchildren and our planet depends on it' he writes...
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