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Managing Our Mangroves - CARE Vietnam - 5-min version

by CARE & Climate Change

---------- In September 2005, Typhoon Damrey, the most powerful typhoon to hit Vietnam in several years, crossed the east coast of Vietnam. At the epicenter of the storm in Thanh Hoa Province in the north, winds of more than 100 kilometres per hour devastated poor coastal communities, demolishing protective dykes, and destroying houses, rice fields and livestock. Only one area in this Province – Hau Loc District, escaped extensive damage. This is…

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SLIPPERY SLOPES - Nature Inc., Episode 5

by CARE & Climate Change

The UK Government’s Report by former World Bank economist Nicholas Stern advocates a one per cent investment in combating global warming to save a much bigger bill a few decades down the line. In this fifth episode, Nature Inc. goes to the Andes and finds glaciers are melting so fast that scientists say most could disappear in 25 years. But millions of people in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru rely on these glaciers for their drinking water, agriculture…

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No Time to Recover (HIGH RES) - CARE & Save the Children UK

by CARE & Climate Change

No Time to Recover: The challenge for Borana and Somali pastoralist communities of Ethiopia to adapt to climate change. Pastoralism in Ethiopia is more than a nomadic livelihood based on the wellbeing of one’s livestock. Pastoralist communities have shared a rich cultural history, a traditional support network, a unique economic system, and a collective social identity supported by kinship and clan loyalty. For centuries, pastoralist communities…

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CARE UK and the importance of climate change

by CARE & Climate Change

Geoffrey Dennis, National Director of CARE UK, explains why CARE UK will be moving forward in the years to come in climate change community-based adaptation (CBA) work through a new Adaptation Learning Programme in Africa.