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Barbados
WHO and UNDP launch new project for health adaptation to climate change
12 Mar 2010, WHO
WHO, along with UNDP, launch in 2010 the first global project on public health adaptation to climate change. This series of pilot projects aim to increase adaptive capacity of national health system institutions, including field practitioners, to respond to climate-sensitive health risks...
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Human Exposure
| Hazard type | Population exposed |
Percentage of population  |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Cyclone | 14,804 |      |
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| Drought | 0 | ||
| Flood | 0 | ||
| Landslide | 0 |  |
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| Earthquake | 0 | |
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| Tsunami | 281 |  |
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Source of data: 2009 Global Assessment Report |
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Top 5 Natural Disaster reported
| Disaster | Date | Affected | (no. of people) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Storm | 1980 | 5,007 |  |
| Storm | 2002 | 2,000 | |
| Storm | 2004 | 880 | |
| Storm | 1987 | 230 | |
| Flood | 1984 | 100 | |
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Source of data: OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database Data version: v11.08 *: Including tsunami Data displayed does not imply national endorsement. |
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From ISDR System and other DRR actors
- Finance and administration expertHaiti (Port-au-Prince), Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe
- Country representative - HaitiHaiti (Haiti), ARC
- Adaptation negotiatorUnited States of America (Washington, DC), U.S. Dept of State, United States of America - gov
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