The domestic Climate Change Programme acknowledges the seriousness of the situation when it says that cuts of up to 60% to 70% globally may be necessary in the long term.
Equally, last year's flooding of the Mekong river, which devastated large parts of Cambodia, should serve as a warning to the region, says David McCauley, head of the ADB's climate-change programme.
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In a partnership with the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) based in Berne (Switzerland), the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), UNESCO is selecting biosphere reserve sites from each of the major mountainous regions of the world as the focus for this new global climate change monitoring programme.
He said there was an integrated plan to tackle climate change and the programme will be reviewed later in the year.
Sandwatch is a climate change and coastal monitoring programme which encourages the development of sustainable approaches to address beach environment challenges, while also stimulating local climate change adaptation measures.
The Planet Under Pressure conference is organized by Diversitas, the International Programme of Biodiversity Science, the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, and the World Climate Research Programme.
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Tim Yeo, chairman of the Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee, told the Today programme's Sarah Montague that the laudable aim of the Green Deal is excellent and has strong support but warned that the "public are not engaged with this for a saving that is some way off in the future".
Bruce Campbell is programme director of the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security research group ( CCAFS) which co-ordinates work among leading institutions around the world.
Mr Blair joined Mr Clinton to launch a programme aiming to tackle poverty, climate change and key world issues by involving politicians, business leaders, activists and academics in seeking solutions.
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But as Brazil has come to take the issues of both climate change and deforestation more seriously, so its opposition to such a programme has moderated.
Yet Marion Cheatle of the UN Environment Programme says Africa will suffer disproportionately from the results of climate change.
Environment Programme said that finance is "essential" in addressing climate change.
The meeting also covered topics which the EU-US largely agree on - including worries about Iran's nuclear programme, efforts to increase clean energy technology and avoid climate change, as well as supporting democracy after the Arab Spring.
The interagency partnership (UNESCO, UNICEF, UNEP, UNFCCC, UNITAR and UNDP) represents a support structure for the implementation of the Doha work programme on Article 6 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which focuses on education, training and public awareness.
This briefing note is based on a stakeholder dialogue organized by the UN World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) at the Dialogs for Water and Climate and Climate Change (D4CC) during the 16th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 16), held in Cancun, Mexico from November 29 to December 10, 2010 (more information).
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