Awareness of Climate Change Must Go Mainstream – 22 May 2012, The Reuters

Addressing a group of journalists during a workshop in Bangkok, Ali Raza Rizvi, Asia head of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) its regional climate change and resilience programme, noted that many Asian countries have become disaster friendly. Describing a region prone to more frequent and deadly natural disasters, Rizvi lamented that, despite these regular climate catastrophes, knowledge and awareness on climate change and extreme weather events among ordinary people remains low at worst and peripheral at best.