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Climate Pressures Threaten Political Stability: Security Experts

But work now to protect food security, reshape water sharing agreements and cut risks from worsening weather disasters could play a huge role in reducing future conflict, r...

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Sustainable Development

Improving Humanitarian Aid How To Make Relief More Efficient ?And Effective

Every month, nearly one million people flee their homes because of conflicts or natural disasters. With few wars ending, and new wars starting, the number of people displac...

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Environment

Link Between Unseasonal Rains, Disasters & Climate Change: Is India Playing The Ostrich?

Soon after the 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Nepal in end-April, geologists based in Europe asserted that the tragedy was caused by climate change. These experts were of the ...

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Sustainable Development

Nepal Earthquake Highlights Dangers Of Dam Building In Tibet

Hydropower development in Tibet is fraught with huge risks because of the danger of major earthquakes. What’s more, the projects might not be needed, say experts. Alt...

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Environment

The Search For A ‘Legally Binding’ Climate Response

Legal experts claim that even without a new global deal in Paris, governments and companies have legal obligations to avert dangerous climate change. King's College London ...

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Sustainable Development

Can India Lead On Green Buildings, Clean Energy And Corporate Sustainability?

With a population rapidly approaching that of China crammed into just one third of the area, India suffers from resource scarcity on a level unlike any other nation. So whi...

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Environment

Getting disaster resilience right

Last year, Asia Pacific suffered 6,000 fatalities and economic losses of almost US$60 billion due to natural disasters. UNESCAP executive secretary Shamshad Akhtar outlines...

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Environment

India’s “smart cities” would be stupid without disaster strategy

After Cyclone Hudhud pounded India?s southern port city of Visakhapatnam last October, snapping bridges, swamping farmland and wrecking fishing boats, many breathed a sigh ...

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Hollywood

David Beckham Launches New UNICEF Fund

David Beckham and UNICEF are today launching a groundbreaking initiative, 7: The David Beckham UNICEF Fund, to protect millions of children around the world from danger. Ma...

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Environment

Climate change pushes India's poorest children into slavery - Satyarthi

Disasters resulting from climate change are pushing poor Indian families into poverty so deep that they are lured by traffickers into selling their children into bonded lab...

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