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ISDRB riefing Note01 Climate Change and Disaster Risk ReductionClimate Change and Disaster risk Reduction are closely linked. More extreme weather events in future are likely to increase the number and scale of disasters, while at the same time, the existing methods and tools of Disaster risk Reduction provide powerful capacities for adaptation to Climate Change . This Briefing Note, prepared by the secretariat of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Secretariat (UNISDR), outlines the nature and significance of Climate Change for Disaster risk, as well as the main perspectives and approaches of Disaster risk Reduction and how they can support adaptation strategies. It is aimed at experts and practitioners as well as non-specialists such as teachers and students, journalists and the interested , September 2008 weather , Climate and Climate changeDefining Climate changeFor most people, the expression Climate Change means the alteration of the world s Climate that we humans are causing, through fossil fuel burning, clearing forests a

ISDR Briefing Note01 Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Climate change and disaster risk reduction are closely linked. More extreme weather events in future

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