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The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami killed 226,000 people - and touched billions
more through iconic imagery. But from the tragedy came stories of
hope, compassion and dignity. Five years after the tsunami, survivors whose
lives were transformed reveal the strength of the human spirit in this special
Thomson Reuters Foundation
multimedia package.
Top humanitarian stories we're looking at today include:
CLIMATE CHANGE: On the penultimate day of
the Copenhagen climate negotiations prospects for a strong deal are growing more remote, with
developed and developing nations deadlocked on sharing cuts in greenhouse gases.
Separately, Bekele Geleta, the secretary general of the International Federation
of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), told AlertNet during an
interview at the talks that communities that need to adapt to climate change can
come up with appropriate adaptation ideas and do the work themselves - if they
have adequate funding and freedom to use it. IFRC's Bekele Geleta
urged governments and humanitarian agencies to ease restrictions on how
money is used to adapt to climate change if they want to see fast, flexible
action.
And for more stories on climate change and the Copenhagen
summit:
Maldives president - "The bottom line is dry land" -
Laurie Goering,
AlertNet
Climatic cracks of doom surface in green Bhutan - Alistair
Scrutton, Reuters
Coping with climate change: Q+A with UN humanitarian chief -
Laurie Goering,
AlertNet
FACTBOX: US proposals in Copenhagen to fight climate
change - Reuters
SLIDESHOW - Climate change changing lives of Bangladeshi Char
Island dwellers - ECHO

Climate change could become biggest driver of
displacement - UNHCR


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