Jan Egeland issues climate change alert

"Investing in measures to adapt to climate change would pay better returns than paying for emergency disaster relief. When sea levels increase by 1cm, 30% of all rice-producing areas of the world will be submerged; and by that time the world population will have increased from seven to nine billion people," said global climate justice advocate Jan Egeland.

Talking in a lecture titled "Disaster Risk Education and Climate Change Adaptation-Areas Where Urgent Actions Are Needed, Mr Egeland warned that climate change will "affect the global livelihood terribly," and urged immediate investments and capacity building in climate change adaptation in the Asia region.