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Dr. Noeleen Heyzer, the Executive Secretary of ESCAP, called for faster implementation of regional and national disaster risk reduction frameworks. 'Hazards become disasters in the absence of development and with inadequate investment in risk reduction'...

'With severe natural disasters affecting many parts of the world, Asean countries and Timor-Leste are being encouraged to provide education on the reduction of disaster risk so people can protect themselves,' Assoc Prof Witaya Jeradechakul, director of the Seameo Secretariat, said...

The road map outlines strategies to strengthen the ASEAN community's three pillars in security, the economy, and in the social-cultural field, including 'natural' disaster relief and prevention and climate change...

The Bali Concord III focuses to the three pillars of the Asean namely politics and security, economy and socio-culture.

For politics and security cooperation, the declaration deals with conflict resolution, transnational crime and piracy eradication

'So, the focus is to build awareness among the population about the need for sustainable development and how to approach climate change adaptation, how to prepare for disasters and disaster risk reduction'...

The implementation of an early warning systems to reduce risk of disasters within the Asean region is being emphasised as the most important agenda in the 33rd meeting of Asean Sub-Committee on Meteorology and Geophysics (SCMG) being held in Brunei...

ASEAN must identify where the sources of money for climate change adaptation and mitigation measures in developing countries will come from, report Shalimar Vitan and Zelda Soriano for AlertNet...

Ministers and senior officials and 22 international organizations working in one of the world’s most disaster-prone regions are meeting in Bangkok this week to discuss a regional strategy to minimize the human, environmental and economic impact of disasters...