In-Depth Global Reports - Natural Disasters


Abdul Majid is no stranger to floods
Indonesia’s natural disaster risks, costs rise

Philippines’ natural disaster risks shift, along with experts

Climate change influence on typhoons uncertain

CLIMATE CHANGE: Watch out for the roads

CLIMATE CHANGE: Cassava key to food security, say scientists

DISASTERS: Insuring against dry days in Africa

CLIMATE CHANGE: Coping versus adapting

CLIMATE CHANGE: A three-degree warmer world by 2050?

ASIA: Natural disasters becoming costlier than ever

PHILIPPINES: Hundreds dead in Mindanao storm as authorities caught off guard

KENYA: Number hit by floods tops 100,000

CLIMATE CHANGE: How to spot a dodgy study

KENYA: Push to put pastoralists on the map

DISASTERS: New risk index helps identify vulnerability

INDONESIA: "Major role" for mosques in disaster

BANGLADESH: Bigger role for women in disaster preparedness

DISASTERS: Better understanding of impact on lives needed

PHILIPPINES: Bracing for La Niña

GLOBAL: Fire, water, air and earth

PHILIPPINES: Cash-strapped government battling storm loans

WEST AFRICA: Hail storms, record rains

BANGLADESH-MYANMAR: Rush to deliver aid to thousands after landslides

GLOBAL: Fewer but more intense cyclones

BANGLADESH-MYANMAR: Rush to deliver aid to thousands after landslides

GLOBAL: Fewer but more intense cyclones

AFRICA: Digesting a "mouthful" of climate change

KENYA: "Children are on the brink of death" in northeast

MYANMAR: Wind like the elephant's nose

MYANMAR: What if another Cyclone Nargis comes?

WEST AFRICA: Disaster-risk reduction made simple

GLOBAL: IPCC to help prepare for short-term climate extremes

SOUTHERN AFRICA: Climate proofing the Zambezi

ISRAEL: Drought declared as five dry winters take their toll
Durban
GLOBAL: Progress in Durban, but not enough
GLOBAL: Rural women make themselves heard in Durban
GLOBAL:For the people, by the people
GLOBAL: More than just a word game
GLOBAL: Losing 10 football stadiums of forest per minute
GLOBAL: The mounting costs of bad weather
GLOBAL: A quick guide to what drives adaptation
GLOBAL: Durban or bust - the Trans-African Caravan of Hope
GLOBAL: Agenda for Durban on the table
Copenhagen
Bangkok
Bonn 1
Poznan
Accra
At the G8
Bangkok (April 2008)
Bali
Other stops
Film

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RIO+20

Deciphering a green economy

Battles won and lost

Slum-dweller power

"Backsliding" on women's rights

The "landscape approach"

Sticky issues and hope

Understanding Rio+20

Resilience - just another buzzword?

Joined-up thinking on water, energy and food

Agriculture in a changing environment
Hear our Voices

Nassamu Malan, “This year is also looking bad”


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Climate change Q & A

What climate change does

How climate change works

What we are doing about climate change
Links and References

2011 Disasters in numbers
Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX)
International Institute for Sustainable Development
International Institute for Environment and Development
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
World Meteorological Organisation
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
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