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Floods Dampen Thai Adaptation Plans
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 16th, 2012
Inter Press Service: Thailand's flood-management blueprint received a jolt when the dykes in Sukhothai were breached by the rain-swollen Yom river last week, submerging large stretches of the former royal capital.Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra toured the flood-damaged historic city 430 km north of Bangkok, reliving relief operations that were mounted last year when the central plains, including the capital, were hit by the worst floods in the country's history.
The barriers designed to prevent the river overflowing...
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Climate Change Severely Impacting Food Prices – Analysis
Posted by Eurasia Review: None Given on September 16th, 2012
Eurasia Review: While there are hardly any signs of substantive and forward-looking agreements being reached at the United Nations climate change conference from November 26 to December 7, 2012 in Doha, latest research cautions that impact of climate change on future food prices is being underestimated.
"By the end of the most recent round of climate talks in Bangkok (August 30 to September 5), there was no movement from developed countries to increase the level of their ambition with regard to emissions reductions...