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DISASTERS: New risk index helps indentify vulnerability

With the media spotlight on the drought and famine in the Horn of Africa, governments and aid organizations have come under fire for their lack of a developmental approach, but a new tool launched by the UN University Inst...

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PAKISTAN: Two million hit by floods in Sindh Province

Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh is facing disaster once more with heavy rains over the past five days, according to the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA). “Two million people in 15 [out of 23] districts...

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UN-backed climate change technology mechanism team concludes first meeting

Members of the technology executive committee created under the United Nations climate change convention to facilitate the use of technology to support mitigation and adaptation to climate change concluded their first meet...

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UN chief and Kiribati leader warn over climate change threat to Pacific islands

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the President of Kiribati, Anote Tong, today stressed that climate change posed the most serious threat to the livelihoods, security and survival of the island nation's residents and the i...

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