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Sun, 2011-04-03 14:26 — mdmcdonald
The Climate Change Adaptions working group is focused upon innovative and workable solutions to the impacts Vietnam is now facing

The mission of the Climate Change working group is to focus on issues realted to climate change in Vietnam and beyond.

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Kerry Quietly Makes Priority of Climate Pact

Fri, 2014-01-10 21:51 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, and Dr. Dang Kieu Nhan, left, wave goodbye after Kerry spoke in Tan An Tay along the Mekong River Delta Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013.  (AP Photo/Brian Snyder, Pool) (The Associated Press)

nytimes.com - By Coral Davenport - January 2, 2014

As a young naval officer in Vietnam, John Kerry commanded a Swift boat up the dangerous rivers of the Mekong Delta. But when he returned there last month as secretary of state for the first time since 1969, he spoke not of past firefights but of climate change.

“Decades ago, on these very waters, I was one of many who witnessed the difficult period in our shared history,” Mr. Kerry told students gathered on the banks of the Cai Nuoc River. He drew a connection from the Mekong Delta’s troubled past to its imperiled future. “This is one of the two or three most potentially impacted areas in the world with respect to the effects of climate change,” he said.

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State of Hawaii - House of Representatives - Presentation of Certificate to Dr. Nguyen Huu Ninh

Wed, 2013-05-08 17:13 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

flickr.com - Governor Neil Abercrombie - May 7, 2013

State of Hawaii - House of Representatives - Presentation of Certificate to Dr. Nguyen Huu Ninh

For significant contributions to the field of environmental science, and in appreciation for his extraordinary efforts to increase global awareness and understanding of climate change.

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Making Communities More Resilient to Climate-Induced Weather Disasters

Tue, 2013-02-26 23:18 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Samuel Bendett

homelandsecuritynewswire.com - February 18, 2013

Mounting scientific evidence indicates climate change will lead to more frequent and intense extreme weather that affects larger areas and lasts longer. We can reduce the risk of weather-related disasters, however, with a variety of measures. Experts say that a good strategy should include a variety of actions such as communicating risk and transferring it through vehicles such as insurance, taking a multi-hazard management approach, linking local and global management, and taking an iterative approach as opposed to starting with a master plan.

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Vietnam’s New Aggressor – the Angry Sea

Sun, 2012-11-04 12:55 — Maeryn Obley

One of Vietnam's many waterways, threatened by a rising sea level.

Image: One of Vietnam's many waterways, threatened by a rising sea level.

encounter-thailand.com - November 1st, 2012 - Tom Fawthrop

If the climate change warnings aren’t yet loud enough, tune into what some of Vietnam’s leading environmental scientists are saying.

Vietnam is among the five countries most in peril as a result of rising sea levels and changing weather patterns, according to a 2009 report by the World Bank. The country’s long, thickly populated coastline and its reliance on fishing and related industries put Vietnam in the frontline of what many experts see as an impending battle for survival.

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100 Million Will Die by 2030 if World Fails to Tackle Climate Change: Report

Thu, 2012-09-27 11:33 — Kathy Gilbeaux

economictimes.indiatimes.com - Reuters
September 26, 2012

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LONDON: More than 100 million people will die and global economic growth will be cut by 3.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2030 if the world fails to tackle climate change, a report commissioned by 20 governments said on Wednesday.

As global average temperatures rise due to greenhouse gas emissions, the effects on the planet, such as melting ice caps, extreme weather, drought and rising sea levels, will threaten populations and livelihoods, said the report conducted by humanitarian organisation DARA.

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Special Report - Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX)

Thu, 2012-03-29 23:14 — Kathy Gilbeaux

28 March 2012

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) on 28 March. The report assesses the evidence that climate change has led to changes in climate extremes and the extent to which policies to avoid, prepare for, respond to and recover from the risks of disaster can reduce the impact of such events. Please click here for an IPCC press release on the report, and here for the report itself.

http://www.ipcc.ch/news_and_events/news.shtml#.T3UOlfXh98F

Special Report - Overview

http://ipcc-wg2.gov/SREX/

Special Report - Press Release (4 page .PDF file)

Global Warming Presents Historic Disaster Risk, Report Says

Thu, 2012-03-29 22:22 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Samuel Bendett

      

Mumbai is among the densely populated cities that scientists say is at great risk. (Photo: Getty Images)

by Seth Borenstein - Associated Press - yahoo.com - March 28, 2012

WASHINGTON — Global warming is leading to such severe storms, droughts, and heat waves that nations should prepare for an unprecedented onslaught of deadly and costly weather disasters, an international panel of climate scientists said in a new report issued Wednesday.

The greatest threat from extreme weather is to highly populated, poor regions of the world, the report warns, but no corner of the globe — from Mumbai to Miami — is immune. The document by a Nobel Prize-winning panel of climate scientists forecasts stronger tropical cyclones and more frequent heat waves, deluges, and droughts.

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Insights from Past Millennia into Climatic Impacts on Human Health and Survival

Tue, 2012-03-27 11:07 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Janine Rees

      

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - by A. J. McMichael - National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia.

Independent, Skeptic-Funded Study Confirms Global Warming is Real

Sun, 2011-10-30 22:15 — Kathy Gilbeaux

 dvice.com - October 30, 2011

         

The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study has just released a summary of a recently completed global land warming analysis showing "reliable evidence of a rise in average world land temperature by approximately one degree Celsius since the mid-1950s." Yeah, we've heard that before, but this is one study that even skeptics may have to believe.

Here's why the Berkeley Earth Project is different from all previous studies on global warming:

Climate Change 'Grave Threat' to Security and Health

Wed, 2011-10-19 22:27 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Nguyen Huu Ninh

by Richard Black - BBC News - October 17, 2011

                  

Food security was interwoven with the climate issue, speakers told the conference

Climate change poses "an immediate, growing and grave threat" to health and security around the world, according to an expert conference in London.

Officers in the UK military warned that the price of goods such as fuel is likely to rise as conflict provoked by climate change increases.

A statement from the meeting adds that humanitarian disasters will put more and more strain on military resources.

It asks governments to adopt ambitious targets for curbing greenhouse gases.

The annual UN climate conference opens in about six weeks' time, and the doctors, academics and military experts represented at the meeting (held in the British Medical Association's (BMA) headquarters) argue that developed and developing countries alike need to raise their game.

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