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Displaying 268 of about 268 resultsSeveral areas in the island nation of Fiji have been classified to be under "meteorological" drought, according to the weather office in Fiji. Fiji Meteorology director Rajendra Prasad said a cyclone was needed, he warned the dry spell could continue even when the island nation approaches the wet season
Adaptation as important as cutting emissions: Report publication - Adapting to climate change
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Adapting to climate change needs to become as much of a priority as cutting emissions, MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee argue in a report out today. Climat…
Alessandra Giannini, a research scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER award to advance our understanding of climate model projections in the African Sahel, a semi-arid region south of the Sahara Desert that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea.
The F…
Addis Ababa - If African countries had had the capacity to do climate change projections, their data could have been fed into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) assessments for the continent, said Richard Odingo, former vice-chair of the IPCC at one of the discussions ahead of the Seventh African Development Forum.
The IPCC is still…
More than 500 practitioners and policy experts in 10 developing countries in Africa and Asia have contributed to a new guide 'Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management'. The production of the recently launched guide was coordinated by Christian Aid, the Institute of Development Studies and Plan International. It aims to be a highly practical guide for risk…
Experts call Vietnam for better preparedness and timely and effective early warnings, and warn that storms will get worse and more erratic as a result of climate change. According to the GlobalPost, they urge the country to adapt or face increased losses of agriculture, infrastructure and overall gross domestic product due to severe, erratic weather occ…
Competition between UN agencies for limited funds, sometimes involving donors, hampered the UN in responding cohesively as “one organization” to help countries develop climate change programmes, said a senior official.
In a session on the sidelines of the UN climate change talks in Cancun, Mexico, on how the UN system has been taking action to help cou…
"Climatic insurance will be a solution because owners of livestock will know that if they lose a part of their herd, they will be reimbursed by an insurance system and they don’t have to rear vast herds," Gilles Marion, Mali country director for the UK based charity, Oxfam, told AlertNet in Dakar.
"The capacity building training was primarily directed at government agencies, local community-based organizations and served as a platform to share experiences, lessons learned and best practices in climate change programmes with emphasis on climate change adaptation measures" said Jonas Nghishidi, project coordinator at the Namibia Nature Foundation,…
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), Asian Disaster Reduction Centre (ADRC) and related parties gathered at the 4th Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Incheon, Republic of Korea, to refine ministerial declarations, reasonable roadmaps - incl…
Martin Karimi, European Commission Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection
Guyatu Bagaja heaves a 20-litre jerry can onto her back and with the help of a younger woman, she firmly secures it using a rope that crosses her shoulders twice, instantly forming rucksack-like straps. Guyatu does not own a donkey, the animal commonly used to carry water in this…
Nairobi - The northwest and southeast regions of Djibouti should receive good rains from July to September, but thousands of pastoralists will still need food assistance until the end of the year, warns an agency.
The Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS Net) said the problems were due to several consecutive seasons of poor rainfall before the las…
This report summarizes the outcomes of the assessment and desk-review analysis undertaken of achievements in disaster risk reduction (DRR) and the implementation of Hyogo Framework for Action in Kyrgyzstan, which aims to be included in the preparation of the second Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction for the period 2010-2011.
It first i…