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'What we know from the science of climate change is that weather patterns are going to become more extreme. The risk is going to get greater and we need to up our game in response to that' said Chris Smith, the EA chairman, at the UK House of Commons environmental audit committee (EAC) last week...
An editorial from the Guardian UK in anticipation of the International day for disaster reduction, taking place worldwide tomorrow, 13 October 2009. A conference on safer hospitals will mark the event in London...
The Guardian reports on the challenges ahead in implementing measures to adapt to climate change: 'strengthened flood prevention measures, early warning systems and sound building codes...' as stated by Sha Zukang, UN under-secretary general for economic and social affairs....
'Every natural disaster is a reminder that knowledge is power. If we know what could happen, then we have no excuse for not doing something about it.'...
Tim Radford, member of the former UK committee for the international decade of natural disaster reduction comments on the global impact of environmental catastrophe...
'What happens when a school really lets its pupils down: when the walls collapse sideways and the heavy tiled roof pancakes down in a couple of seconds? ...'
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