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A declaration adopted by the Member States of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) on September 27, 2012, on the sidelines of the 67th United Nations General Assembly.

An awareness campaign on Gendered impact of climate change with a focus on the pivotal role that women can play in climate change mitigation and adaptation programmes and strategies was recently launched at the National Women Development Centre, Phoenix, by the Minister of Gender Equality, Child Development and Family Welfare, Mrs Mireille Martin...

This review provides an inventory of country-level adaptation activities and a summary of key adaptation priorities, based on documents like the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s National Adaptation Programs of Action and National Communications

This document presents a review of current and planned adaptation action in southern Africa. For the purpose of this review, this region is designated as including the countries of Botswana, Comoros, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique

The Rim community resolved to support efforts in building the preparedness of member states in dealing with disasters in the region — an area regularly devastated by cyclones, monsoon floods and other natural disasters...

When unexpectedly heavy floods displaced more than a million people in southern Africa in 2007, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) began to meet annually to prepare for future occurrences, culminating in the creation of the SADC Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction this month.

'Despite these occasional problems, Exercise IOWave11 has achieved its goal of evaluating the state of readiness of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System in responding to a potentially destructive tsunami,' said Wendy Watson-Wright, Executive Secretary of UNESCO-IOC...

Almost seven years after the devastating tsunami of 2004, more than 20 nations will participate on 12 October in a full-scale exercise to test the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System...