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Durban climate politics and the growing importance of unity for vulnerable countries
By Matthew McKinnon, Head of Climate Vulnerability Initiative, DARA International. DARA played a key role in assisting the Government of Bangladesh to host the Climate Vulnerable Forum in November 2011. The Forum’s Outcome Notes are available online; the Forum [...] Read more...
Climate Vulnerable Forum 2011 Outcome Notes
Download the Outcome Notes (pdf, 3.5mb) Climate Vulnerable Forum 2011 in Dhaka Read more...
November 2011: The Third Way
A word from Ross Mountain: November 2011 Another year is drawing to a close and the humanitarian community is still grappling with the large-scale drought-driven emergency in the Horn of Africa. At the same time, the world's main scientific body on the [...] Read more...
CNN: U.N. chief urges global leaders to launch Green Climate Fund
Source: CNN By Farid Ahmed, For CNN STORY HIGHLIGHTS The ministers come from nations considered most vulnerable to climate change An important world-wide climate change meeting is coming up in South Africa The ministers agreed to stand united on a [...] Read more...
Press Release: Climate vulnerable countries unite in Dhaka ministerial Forum pledging firm common stance ahead of COP17 in Durban
DHAKA, 14 November 2011- Nineteen of the most vulnerable countries to climate change have today agreed to present a unified front filling the leadership vacuum ahead of COP17 in Durban as they signed the Dhaka Declaration of the Climate Vulnerable Forum, following [...] Read more...
Climate Vulnerable Forum Declaration adopted
Read the press release Dhaka Ministerial Declaration of the Climate Vulnerable Forum 2011 November 14, 2011 We, Ministers and representatives of Governments from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Pacific, members of the Climate Vulnerable [...] Read more...
UN News Centre: Bangladesh offers lessons on climate change and disaster risks – Ban Ki-Moon
Source: UN News Centre Climate change is the single most important challenge the world faces, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed today in Bangladesh, a country that is all too familiar with the impact of extreme weather events and which the United Nations [...] Read more...
Boston Globe: UN chief urges leaders to finalize financing of $100 billion climate change fund
Source: Boston Globe By Julhas Alam Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh—U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged world leaders Monday to finalize the financing for a multibillion-dollar fund to fight the effects of climate change. Delegates at a U.N [...] Read more...
Al Video: Jazeera English covers the Climate Vulnerable Forum 
Dhaka Summit Battles Climate Change Policy. The Climate Vulnerable Forum has convened in Bangladesh for countries worried about how climate change threatens them to create a unified statement just weeks ahead of UN-sponsored talks on the same subject in Durban, South Africa. Read more...
