Response to El Niño must be ramped up amid preparedness for La Niña’s likely knock-on effect – UN

July 6th, 2016|Climate change, Disaster risk reduction, Hunger and food security, News|

Failure to prepare for and adapt to the 'new normal' of increasing climate-linked emergencies such as El Niño could put global development targets at risk and deepen widespread human suffering in areas already hard hit by floods and droughts, top United Nations officials said in Rome today.