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Qatar is taking major steps to develop a national plan for mainstreaming disaster risk reduction and recovery to address future disaster challenges, improve the coordination and determine key actions.

A declaration by the Mayors and Local Government representatives together with National Government Officials emphasizing the importance of reducing disaster risk in Arab cities, in which the participants of the First Arab conference for disaster risk

A declaration by the Mayors and Local Government representatives together with National Government Officials emphasizing the importance of reducing disaster risk in Arab cities, in which the participants of the First Arab conference for disaster risk

The Secretary General of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) has called for strong regional commitment towards development of a disaster risk reduction strategy to strengthen the resilience of nations and individuals to natural hazards.

فتتح معالي الأمين العام لمجلس التعاون لدول الخليج العربية الدكتور عبداللطيف بن راشد الزياني صباح اليوم الأحد 13/1/2012م، ورشة عمل الحد من مخاطر الكوارث التي تنظمها الأمانة العامة لمجلس التعاون بالتعاون مع مكتب الأمم المتحدة للحد من مخاطر الكوارث وبمشاركة وفود من دول مجلس التعاون.

Governments in the region have begun to ask the right questions about identifying vulnerable populations and are talking resilience, the WB tells IRIN. Improving people’s adaptive capacity does not always involve money...investment in more social protection measures is also needed...

Citing the aftermath of recent drought, wildfire and hurricanes in the US, the Nature Conservancy highlights its work both in Doha and outside the UN process to help countries take climate action now by promoting green infrastructure as a core element of solutions to reduce climate and disaster risks and raises big questions over the pathway to ramp up toward the $100 billion, or even smaller funding flows, that are needed for climate finance in the next five years...

'Now is the time to act. Farmers around the world are experiencing the impacts of climate change today and they need support if they are to adapt. Farming can also become part of the solution, given the potential of agriculture to mitigation,' Tracy Gerstle, co-Chair of Farming First...