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The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) is strengthening its preparedness and response capacities in the event of a major earthquake...

Jamaica's Prime Minister, Bruce Golding is creating a network of young people to help the country in emergency situations. Disaster preparedness and risk reduction training will also be given to 150 communities across the island...

This article - published by the Economic Times, of India - stresses the need to make disaster management part of the new government's agenda...

Chinese Vice Premier Minister Hui Liangyu addressed the importance of disaster prevention in the north of the country, which suffers from drought...

African environment ministers have agreed to mainstream climate change adaptation measures into national and regional development plans, policies and strategies...

The EC, CARIFORUM member states, overseas countries and Caribbean, territories, the EU outermost regions in the Caribbean and their related EU member states met to discuss closer collaboration for disaster management and response...

A record registration of some 1,500 participants, drawn from 150 Governments and over 120 regional/national Organizations is building momentum for the Second Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction which opens in Geneva two weeks today

A senior official has called for the establishment of a high-level system to help prevent disasters and reduce potential damage caused by them...

In order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, UNISDR aims to minimize and compensate the impacts related to the Global Platform. Making the Global Platform a carbon neutral event is not an isolated activity. It is part of UNISDR’s climate neutral

The first ever report focusing on the global human impact of climate change was released today by the Global Humanitarian Forum. Vulnerability to climate change is on the agenda of the Global Platform...