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Averting disasters : 'Planning can mitigate climate change impact'
2016-06-13 02:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
APP: Appropriate planning and putting effective strategy in place could help mitigate the adverse impact of global meteorological changes that has reached extreme levels due to global warming and changing climate patterns. National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Spokesperson Ahmed Kamal said that natural disasters were unavoidable but the damage from such tragedies could be lowered reasonably by keeping an affective and comprehensive strategy in place to address certain key issues. Commenting...
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Climate Disasters Pose Growing Threat to Food Security
2015-11-30 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - Droughts, floods, storms and other disasters triggered by climate change have risen in frequency and severity, putting many developing countries at risk of growing food insecurity, FAO has warned in a new report released ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21) in Paris.
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Surge in climate change-related disasters poses growing threat to food security
2015-11-28 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
FAO: Droughts, floods, storms and other disasters triggered by climate change have risen in frequency and severity over the last three decades, increasing the damage caused to the agricultural sectors of many developing countries and putting them at risk of growing food insecurity, FAO warned in a new report released today ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21) in Paris. Worldwide, between 2003 and 2013 - the period analyzed in the study - the average annual number of disasters...
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Climate deal urgent after weather-linked disasters kill 600,000 20 years: UN
2015-11-23 11:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Weather-related disasters have grown more frequent over the last 20 years, claiming more than 600,000 lives, the UN said Monday, issuing a further call for nations to strike a landmark deal on climate change. The report from the United Nations agency for disaster risk reduction (UNISDR) said floods, storms and other extreme weather events have killed 606,000 people since 1995, "with an additional 4.1 billion people injured, left homeless or in need of emergency assistance." The report noted...
Linking Disasters to Climate Makes Skeptics Less Likely to Donate, Study Says
2015-06-23 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Linking natural disasters to climate change makes global warming skeptics less likely to donate money to relief efforts, says a study by psychologists at the University of Massachusetts. They asked study participants to read an article about a drought-related famine; one version of the article attributed the droughts to climate change, and the other version made no mention of climate. The researchers then asked the participants why they would or would not donate money for relief, and about their...
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