Informes

12 Dec 2011 11:52 Source: Reuters // Reuters Rainy season expected to peak in December and January Floods could disrupt nascent recovery in coffee, cocoa output Impact on palm oil limited to transportation, distribution (Adds industry comments, background) By Yayat Supriatna JAKARTA,…

Central Da Nang City plans to set up a natural disaster prevention and control fund worth VND8.4 billion (US$403,200). The fund, supported by a donation from the US-based Institute of Social and Environmental Transition, will use capital…

PRESS RELEASE 06DECEMBER 2011 15:00 GMT+2 • Ministers and representatives of countries highly vulnerable to climate change met in Durban at COP17 amid a lack of concrete outcomes in international climate talks DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA – 0 6 December…

Credit management units allow thousands of farmers to access credit 6 December 2011 | Nangarhar, Afghanistan CHALLENGE USAID designed the Agricultural Development Fund to work through commercial banks and other financial institutions, providing them with lending capital and compensating…

€8 million agreement to install “green” stoves and solar panels and provide support for humanitarian efforts. DURBAN Italian energy company Enel and the World Food Programme (WFP), the UN agency that provides food assistance and logistics support…

Overview The Challenge: Linking Gender Issues to Natural Disasters and Disaster Risk Management Programs The countries of East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) are among the most vulnerable in the world to the physical, social, and economic effects…

MANILA, Philippines, 5 December 2011 – “We cannot really change the world, but we can change ourselves for the world,” said Arnel Alipao, an 18-year-old youth advocate from Mainit, Surigao del Norte, in the Philippines. Arnel survived…

DURBAN, 5 December 2011 (IRIN) - High up in the Himalayas in Nepal is a glacial lake that has been growing in length by 60 metres a year, threatening to burst its banks as rising temperatures…

Durban, South Africa Findings from the most comprehensive assessment to date on climate change, snow and glacier melt in Asia’s mountainous Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region—site of Mount Everest and many of the world’s tallest peaks—highlight the region’s…