Guardian, the (UK)

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...

Leading climate scientists are gathering this week in Boulder, Colorado in the United States, to plan the development of an early warning system that would predict future climate-related disasters, reports the Guardian UK...

In an editorial for the Guardian, Peter Stott, head of climate monitoring and attribution at the UK Met Office addresses the issue of extreme weather phenomena and the potential link to climate change. He stresses a need for a new advance in forecasting systems to help identify changing trends in extremes...

The UK Guardian reports that 'the death toll could have been much lower, assistance much more quickly and efficiently at hand, the state has failed its citizens, and now the country is unprepared to deal with the floods' in a call for disaster risk management...

Thousands of miles of railway track to be examined for ability to withstand storms, flooding and heatwaves: the Guardian UK reports on the climate change adaptation programme, commissioned by the rail industry safety board...

In a Guardian report, Bill McGuire, head of the Benfield Hazard Research Centre, asserts that 'the IPCC is also strongly exhorted to address more explicitly in future assessments the impact of anthropogenic climate change on the geosphere, together with its manifold potentially hazardous consequences'...