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SPOTLIGHT ON |
| Defending against climate change |
| | It’s hard to believe that just a few hours' drive from Bangkok, where a key UN meeting on climate change recently took place, the impacts of climate change on coastal communities can be seen so clearly.
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| | If we make the right decisions now about how to adapt to climate change, we can restore and even enhance biodiversity, says Robert Watson.
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ON THE GROUND |
| Eye witness: Zambia |
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| Communities across Southern Africa are looking to new ways of coping with droughts and floods caused by the impacts of climate change.
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| Power to Pangani's people |
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The impacts of climate change are taking hold in Tanzania’s Pangani River basin. The snow cap of Mount Kilimanjaro is melting rapidly.
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UNFCCC Barcelona Climate Change Talks
2 - 6 November, Barcelona, Spain
 This meeting is the last stop before the key UN Climate Change Conference, to be held in Copenhagen in December.
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Publications
Environmental Guidance Note for Disaster Risk Reduction
Investment in sustainable ecosystem management can offer cost-effective solutions to reducing community vulnerability to disasters.
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Change: adaptation of water resources management to climate change
This book outlines a new management approach that moves beyond technical quick fixes towards a more adaptive style that is inclusive and innovative.
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Adapting to change
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Extinction crisis continues apace
The latest update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ shows that 17,291 species out of the 47,677 assessed species are threatened with extinction.
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