The Yangtze River Basin Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation Report, released in Beijing yesterday, not only describes the impact of climate change but also offers specific adaptation strategies for the Yangtze...
The world's wealthiest donors do not put enough into helping communities prevent and prepare for disaster, says the non-profit DARA International, in its third annual rating of donors on quality and efficacy of humanitarian aid...
The Daily News of Sri Lanka reports on the National Building Research Organization, now part of the Disaster Management and Human Rights Ministry, catering for new areas of disaster management, DRR and landslide mitigation....
The Severe Weather Warning Disaster Risk Reduction Demonstration Project began this week the in South Pacific Islands. 'Ultimately, this project should assist in saving people’s lives' said Peter Fisher, International Operations Manager at New Zealand's MetService...
Director Milagros Rimando of the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) stressed that while natural hazards can not be prevented from happening, the vicious cycle of disasters can be reversed through mainstreaming DRR in the development process...
Speakers at the recent 2009 Annual Critical Infrastructure Protection Congress concluded that the best strategy for mitigating the effects of all hazards is to “fill the gap” through the development and maintenance of resilient organizational critical infrastructures...
More than 90 world experts have assembled today in Panama City to start a new assessment on how climate change will affect disaster risks in future and how countries can better manage the expected increases in damaging weather events due to climate change. The meeting is being convened by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which decided in April 2009 to prepare a new IPCC Special Report called: “Managing the Risk of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation”. The assessment was proposed by the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) and the government of Norway in response to the predictions in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report that more frequent and severe extreme events such as droughts, floods, storms, heat waves were likely in the future warmer world. View full story
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
The international Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (the IDRiM Society) and its Journal (IDRiM Journal) were launched in Kyoto, Japan, at the 9th IIASA-DPRI Forum on Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM Forum)...
UNISDR, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery of the World Bank, UNDP Syria and the Syrian Ministry for Local Administration convened a regional workshop on Urban Risk Reduction in Damascus on 4-5 November 2009. More than forty participants representing local authorities, researchers, academic experts, international and regional organizations have gathered to discuss regional priorities and challenges with respect to urban risk reduction as well as key actions to be undertaken regionally, nationally and locally to build safer cities and increase resilience to disasters. View full story
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Arab States
According to the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the plan is intended to 'serve as a direct channel of communication relating to the urgent adaptation needs of Afghanistan to the effect of climate change'...
