UNISDR urges governments at Bali climate change conference to promote adaptation and disaster risk reduction

The secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR) stressed the importance of including climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction policies in the Bali talks on climate change that will start next Monday. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is convening the 13th session of the Conference of the Parties in Bali, Indonesia from 3 to 14 December, to launch negotiations on the climate change regime after 2012, when the Kyoto Protocol ends.