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    UNFCCC climate talks - Science perspectives on loss and damage

    On Tuesday 4 June 2013, UNU organized a side event on climate change related loss and damage that explored climate change realities in different regions around the world, a new policy framework to address loss and damage and non-economic loss and damage. |Read more

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    Call for applications - The resilience academy: Exploring livelihood resilience

    The Resilience Academy:

    In the most vulnerable regions of our planet, the impacts of extreme weather events such as floods and droughts threaten lives and livelihoods. The most affected regions include large deltas, small islands, and exposed coastal regions, as well as arid and semiarid lands, and areas affected by glacier and permafrost melt. The Resilience Academy will provide a platform for connecting communities of expertise (early phase practitioners, academics, and policy analysts), examining livelihood resilience in the face of local and regional realities,and co-creating concepts to foster resilience.

    Dates and locations:

    Bangladesh: Dhaka, 15–21 September 2013

    Germany: Munich, 2014 |Read more

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    Public symposium: non-economic loss and damage from climate change

    The 13th Bonn Dialogues panel discussion will discuss the role of non-economic loss and damage, its impacts on societies and current evidence. The public symposium takes place on Monday, 10 June 2013 at 6 p.m. at Deutsche Welle. Please register via - all welcome!

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    Legal Aspects of Climate Change: Lunchtime Lecture with Dr. Cosmin Corendea

    Dr. Cosmin Corendea from UNU-EHS will be giving a lecture titled, “Legal Aspects of Climate Change”, at the Lunchtime Lectures event hosted by the Institute for Public International Law at the University of Bonn.  The lecture will take place on Thursday 6 June from 18:15 to 19:45 (not at lunch!). It is open to the general public and no registration is necessary. |Read more

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  1. Klimawandel vernichtet Wissen und Kultur - Deutsche Welle

    11.03.2013 - Zerstörte Häuser und Brücken lassen sich meist wieder aufbauen. ...

  2. Les assurances ne sont pas une garantie de résilience pour les agriculteurs - IRIN

    JOHANNESBOURG, 11 March 2013 (IRIN) - Dans la plupart des pays en développement ...

  3. Insurance only part of disaster resilience, says climate change panel - Guardian

    6 March 2013. ...

  4. Despite hype, insurance not key to resilience for farmers - IRIN

    JOHANNESBURG, 5 March 2013 (IRIN) - In most developing countries, farmers risk losing ...