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Enhancing disease surveillance and response and improving environmental conditions can help reduce negative health impacts of climate change.

With the right mix of policy measures, low carbon development can be made to benefit the poor.

Including agriculture in international climate negotiations can help meet mitigation and adaptation goals while also reducing poverty.

A four-step plan to help governments integrate adaptation to climate change into development planning and policy.

Better integration of science and policy in Africa is crucial for effective adaptation to climate change, concluded an international workshop.

National Adaptation Programmes of Action put climate change adaptation on the development agenda, write Balgis Osman-Elasha and Thomas E. Downing.

Saleemul Huq and Richard J.T. Klein explain why adaptation to climate change is a necessary and urgent approach to complement mitigation efforts, and how the issue is being addressed at both a national and global level.