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World must face up to climate-driven disasters: UN

2013-05-22 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: The world needs to wake up to the risk of a spike in natural disasters linked to climate change and strive to find ways to cut the human and economic cost, the United Nations warned on Tuesday. "We live in a time of huge natural disasters which are made worse by climate change," the UN's deputy secretary-general, Jan Eliasson, told reporters at the start of a three-day conference on risk reduction in Geneva. "Natural disasters are not only becoming more frequent but are becoming more vehement,"...

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