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Asia Pacific region faces rising costs from storms, disasters
Posted by Voice of America: Ron Corben on December 25th, 2011
Voice of America: Climate and disaster risk experts say the Asia Pacific region faces rising costs from storms and disasters often tied to climate change, creating new challenges for regions as they try to prepare and recover from such events. Warning comes as Thailand and the Philippines attempt to bounce back from recent disasters and the region gets ready to mark the seventh anniversary of the devastating 2004 Indonesian earthquake and tsunami.
The backhoe lifts piles of discarded rubbish left from flood-stricken...
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UN Chief Calls for Support on Climate-Change Mitigation
Posted by Voice of America: Ron Corben on November 16th, 2011
Voice of America: U.N. Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon in Thailand to assess the country’s flood crisis says the global community needs to back funding for climate-change mitigation to follow up the promises made during the 2009 Copenhagen climate conference. Ban's call comes three weeks before a climate-change conference in Durban, South Africa.
The secretary-general, speaking to journalists Wednesday, renewed a plea to the global community to assist in meeting the financial costs of climate change on economies...