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A proposal for debt swaps was adopted on Friday, by parliamentarians attending the Global Platform 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland, as a creative solution to raise funds for disaster risk reduction programmes...

The World Health Organization and UNICEF today called on governments to strengthen risk reduction measures in four key areas so that health and education systems are able to cope with disasters, including the risks from climate change...

Natural disasters may be unavoidable, but human vulnerability to those disasters is not. 'What kills, and what destroys, is the vulnerability of the population,' said Margareta Wahlström, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction...

This week’s Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction will be carbon neutral, in line with the “Greening the UN” initiative which aims at climate neutrality. Accordingly, the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) secretariat, which

The 2009 laureate for the Sasakawa Award for Disaster Reduction is geologist Dr Eko Teguh Paripurno. He receives the award - valued at US$ 50,000 - for his lifetime contribution and his outstanding commitment to reduce disaster risk and building capacity at the community level in Indonesia, one of the countries most vulnerable to multiple hazards.

IUCN urges policy makers at the Platform to recognize and invest in sustainable ecosystem management as a cost-effective solution to reducing vulnerability to disasters...

Reducing the vulnerabilities of communities to disasters will play a critical role in addressing some of the challenges of population movement caused by disasters, says IOM ahead of the Global Platform 2009...

Le Conseil fédéral veut poursuivre les efforts d’optimisation de la protection contre les dangers naturels. Il a chargé la Plate-forme nationale « Dangers naturels » PLANAT de combler les lacunes...