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Reuters: 100 million to die by 2030 if world fails to act on climate
Source: Reuters By Nina Chestney LONDON | Wed Sep 26, 2012 5:51am EDT LONDON (Reuters) - More than 100 million people will die and global economic growth will be cut by 3.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2030 if the world fails to tackle [...] Read more...
Video: Climate Vulnerable Forum Side Event at Rio+20 
Video of the CVF Side Event at Rio+20. Bangladesh Environment Minister HE Dr. Hasan Mahmud: "There has been a degradation of Agenda 21 here in Rio. With only a few paragraphs, climate change is not adequately addressed." Read more...
The Guardian: Poor and vulnerable countries are defying climate inaction
The Guardian featured an article about the Climate Vulnerable Forum. Slow progress at global climate talks is belied by the plethora of actions in many smaller and more at-risk developing nations. As the next round of climate talks – the COP17 climate change conference in Durban – draws close, there is a general air of pessimism about achieving any breakthroughs. Read more...
Reuters: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to Deliver Inaugural Speech at Dhaka Climate Vulnerable Forum on 14 November
Source: Reuters The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, will be attending the Climate Vulnerable Forum Ministerial Meeting on13th and 14th of November in Dhaka, Bangladesh, during which time he will be delivering the inaugural speech. The unique global conference [...] Read more...
Testimonials about the Climate Vulnerable Forum 2011
Testimonials about the Climate Vulnerable Forum from: José María Figueres, Former President of Costa Rica and DARA Board Member, and Ikhtiar Momin Chowdhury, Ambassador of Bangladesh to Spain Read more...
Bangladesh issues Briefing Notes: Climate Vulnerable Forum, Dhaka, 13-14 November
The Forum The government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, supported by DARA, is convening a unique global conference of countries worst affected by the growing climate crisis. The ministerial-level meeting of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) will see [...] Read more...
Green Building Press: Most Climate Change Vulnerable Seek Support
Source: Green Building Press Ministers and representatives of some 30 countries, among the most vulnerable to the harmful effects of climate change, will gather in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 13th and 14th November 2011, just ahead of UN climate talks in Durban (COP17 [...] Read more...
The Daily Star (Bangladesh): Affected states to seek action from industrialised nations
Source: The Daily Star Bangladesh is going to host a two-day conference of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF), an alliance of countries most affected by climate change, beginning November 13, just two weeks prior to the UN Climate Change Conference. Environment [...] Read more...