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Covering the Global Platform 2013

Disaster risk must be part of new development goals - global forum

AlertNet

Work on reducing the risk of disasters cannot be separated from efforts to tackle climate change and to move towards more sustainable development, an international conference on disaster risk reduction agreed this week, reports Megan Rowling for AlertNet. Earlier this week, UN deputy secretary-general Jan Eliasson told journalists, 'I would claim that disaster risk reduction has to be part of the (post-2015) development agenda because it is the poor, it is the most vulnerable who are most affected.'...

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    Jakarta Post, the

    Businesses suffer direct losses when they have invested in locating factories, offices, plants, warehouses and other facilities in locations exposed to hazards such as floods, cyclones, earthquakes or tsunamis, without adequately investing to reduce the risks. Policy makers and business leaders from around the world gathered in Geneva from May 19 to 23 for the Fourth Session of the Global Platform...

  • Belarus ready for tight cooperation in preventing, responding to emergencies

    BELTA, Belarus - gov

    Belarus, whose delegation participated in the Global Platform 2013, is ready for tight and productive cooperation with international and regional organizations, foreign states, private and public sectors, research and education institutions at all levels and in all the aspects involved in preventing and alleviating consequences of disasters...

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