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Project scientist Suzanne Rosier reports on the world's biggest climate forecasting project which is inviting internet users worldwide to join its latest experiment weatherathome...
The money pledged to developing countries at Copenhagen is a good start, but it must be made more easily accessible says Saleemul Huq, senior fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development...
Servaas van den Bosch reports on the climate change issues facing Namibia, including food security, whilst countries gather at the Tarawa climate change conference - a follow-up of last year's Climate Vulnerable Forum. Vulnerable countries attending the conference have much to learn from each other, he writes...
Robin McKie reports for the UK Guardian on the recent warnings from geologists that Haiti is at serious risk of devastation from earthquakes in the near future. 'We can only recommend rebuilding Port-au-Prince as safely as money allows' said Roger Bilham, a geologist at the University of Colorado...
'Physical infrastructure, land-planning and the size of informal settlements are the biggest factors determining the impact of disasters on cities,' said the director of Urban Disaster Risk Management with the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre in Bangkok, in a report by the Guardian UK Development Network...
The Guardian UK looks at the numerous difficulties vulnerable communities are facing worldwide, adapting to climate change, and addresses the 'lack of political consensus, which precedes financial commitment' which according to the NGO Practical Action is 'debilitating'...
On the International Day for Disaster Reduction, Terry Gibson from the Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction, describes the measures being undertaken by NGOs to ensure that the most vulnerable are heard in the wider debate in a report from the Guardian...
The Guardian reports that the world's oldest insurance market said net claims jumped by more than a fifth in the first half of the year and according to analyst Nick Pope there could be worse to come, with the approaching hurricane season in the Gulf of Mexico...
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