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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...

'There is renewed hope that next month in Qatar, countries can agree to act together to take positive action on climate change and embrace a new model of development, which reduces greenhouse gas emissions, builds resilience to climate change and delivers sustainable development for all'...

This report, the first report in the UN-Habitat series on the state of cities to focus on the Arab world, highlights issues of environmental and natural disasters, risk and vulnerability, within a collective picture of urban conditions and trends in each

A regional meeting of experts held in Cairo could result in a doubling of the number of Arab countries that systematically report on disaster losses. UNISDR brought together over 40 participants from 15 Arab countries to discuss and exchange experiences on establishing national disaster loss databases.

Measures to improve regional food security by cutting food losses and waste and by mitigating and adapting to climate change will be considered by FAO's Regional Conference for the Near East...

The UN office for disaster risk reduction, UNISDR, and ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability have completed a four-month pilot test of the Local Government Self-Assessment Tool (LG-SAT) designed to help disaster risk reduction efforts in over 1,000 cities and local governments that have signed up to UNISDR's global "Making Cities Resilient" Campaign. LG-SAT has been made possible with funding from the World Bank's Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction and the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid branch, ECHO.

The League of Arab States (LAS) and UNISDR move one step closer to a plan of action on disaster risk reduction for the Arab region. The action plan is expected to be endorsed at the first-ever Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Arab region planned for 2012.