Frances Seymour, Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), talks about climate change, adaptation and the importance of forest ecosystems.

"the Australian National University's National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health and University of Queensland's School of Integrative Biology have been selected to lead a three-year, A$3.15 million 'Collaboration Cluster' in partnership with CSIRO. The Urbanism, Climate Adaptation and Health Collaboration Cluster's research program will focus on heat stress, food security and safety, air quality, and the changing risk posed by vector-borne diseases such as dengue fever due to climate change."

In the UN-REDD Programme’s March-April 2011 newsletter, readers hear from partner countries, civil society organizations and donors about their evolving commitment to REDD+ and UN-REDD; Ecuador highlights the country's next steps in developing and implementing their national REDD+ strategy; and readers get an overview of the UN-REDD Programme’s draft Social and Environmental Principles and Criteria, presented recently at the Programme's Policy Board meeting in Viet Nam.

This article in press in the Building and Environment, (Volume 46, Issue 5, May 2011, p1151-8) journal, discusses that "present research explored beliefs about climate change among an important yet relatively understudied population: representatives of the building industry and assessed the perceived adequacy of current climate-related actions within the industry and the perceived need for developing new practices"