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IPCC SREX related news
date: 5 March 2013 Tom Mitchell, SREX lead author says that insurance, when combined with other risk-management measures like early warning systems, can provide valuable information to the vulnerable, better preparing them to weather disasters. But when insurance is the only means of reducing risk, it 'can convey a feeling of security while actually leaving people overly exposed to impacts'... |
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date: 18 January 2013 Dr Scott Power, of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, coordinating lead author for the IPCC report told World News Australia that extreme temperatures, heatwaves and bushfires are typically part of Australian summers, but climate change is increasing the likelihood and intensity of such extremes... |
date: 28 December 2012 'This Framework plan is about equipping agencies with the analysis and tools to help people to cope with and reduce the disruption to their lives from the impacts of climate change. It will help them to understand the changes required to enhance their quality of life, and help our economic recovery and takes account of changes to climate patterns, and extreme events,' said Minister Hogan... |
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date: 28 November 2012 The oceans are rising 60 per cent faster than the IPCC’s latest best estimates, according to a study now published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. “The new findings highlight that the IPCC is far from being alarmist and in fact in some cases rather underestimates possible risks,” said Stefan Rahmstorf... |
date: 29 October 2012 In addition to October 2012 having been a big month for disaster resilience, it's also been a big year. While such profile is refreshing for those working to manage disaster risk, the reality is the future of disaster losses looks bleak, at least in the short-to-medium term, says ODI in a call for disaster resilience to become a priority for the post-2015 development agenda... |
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date: 17 October 2012 Nowhere in the world is the rising number of natural catastrophes more evident than in North America. The study shows a nearly quintupled number of weather-related loss events in North America for the past three decades... |
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date: 19 June 2012 Insurance has an important place in a comprehensive risk management strategy, which must focus on assessing and then reducing risk as a first priority, reports CDKN. It should then be considered as one component of a strategy designed to minimise the losses associated with the residual risks left after measures to reduce risks are in place... |
date: 18 June 2012 'There is an intimate link between efforts to achieve sustainable development and those required to meet the climate change challenge. Sustainable development can reduce vulnerability to climate change, and climate change could impede nations' abilities to achieve sustainable development pathways,' says RK Pachauri... |
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date: 23 May 2012 Margareta Wahlström: 'Ich glaube die zurzeit kritischste Frage ist: Wie können wir das Gefühl der Dringlichkeit aufrecht erhalten? Die Botschaft ist klar: Wenn wir "Business as usual" weiter praktizieren, ist das praktisch ein Fahrplan in die Katastrophe'... |
date: 9 May 2012 CDKN reports that government and business must put weather-related disaster risk management at the heart of economic and fiscal planning... |
date: 3 May 2012 'Children and young people have the right to information that is tailored to them. Even complex scientific reports should be converted to child and youth appropriate versions, if the information is likely to affect them,' said Amalia Fawcett, the author of the youth-friendly version and Plan Australia’s senior child rights specialist... |
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date: 17 April 2012 'The SREX report is a monumental achievement, but CDKN wanted to help policy-makers, media, businesses and civil society stakeholders to navigate this huge resource. That’s why we produced these regional guides which are easy to use, but preserve the careful scientific language of the original'... |
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date: 16 April 2012 These impacts in the nature of extreme events and disasters not only have humanitarian significance but economic consequences as well, asserts R K Pachauri reports for the Economic Times... |
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date: 3 April 2012 'The most effective measures tend to be those that aid sustainable development, provide a diverse portfolio of options, and represent 'low regrets' strategies in the sense that they yield benefits across a wide range of climate futures,' stated Chris Field, co-chair of IPCC's Working Group II... |
date: 2 April 2012 'Is this the time for a comprehensive and integrated body of disaster law to emerge in Australia rather than continuing to think that disaster laws are all about emergency responses?' asks Rosemary Lyster, Professor of Climate and Environmental Law at University of Sydney... |
date: 30 March 2012 According to Chris Field, Co-Chair of the IPCC's Working Group II, 'The main message from the report is that we know enough to make good decisions about managing the risks of climate related disasters'... |
date: 29 March 2012 'Our chapter was the only one by Working Group 1 in the report.' 'The main message is that there are already changes in extremes that we can observe. How sure we are with regard to these changes depends strongly on the considered extremes and regions,' said ETH-Zurich professor Sonia Seneviratne... |
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date: 29 March 2012 'Quando olhamos para o futuro, as mais difíceis decisões que tomaremos serão as migrações em larga escala e a mobilização de comunidades inteiras. Muitas pessoas terão que abandonar os locais onde sempre viveram e com os quais possuem laços culturais e históricos', disse Chris Field, um dos editores do relatório e cientista climático da Universidade de Stanford... |
date: 28 March 2012 'The main message from the report is that we know enough to make good decisions about managing the risks of climate-related disasters. Sometimes we take advantage of this knowledge, but many times we do not,' said Chris Field, Co-Chair of IPCC’s Working Group II... |
date: 25 November 2011 United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, writes for the Financial Times about the importance that disaster risk management must be given in countries... |
date: 25 November 2011 'Problems with fresh water are getting more severe. Too much of it brings floods, too little of it, drought. Clearly the report sends a very serious and unfortunate message to many world regions'... |
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date: 23 November 2011 'Our growing experience of working with vulnerable communities to address climate change in 34 countries demonstrates the key role local communities, and women, play in adapting and strengthening resilience to climate change impacts'... |
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date: 23 November 2011 'This report will be important for the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action. One of its key strengths is that it assessed all the available literature across the relevant research areas and addressed the issues in a holistic way'... |
date: 18 November 2011 'This summary for policymakers [of the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX)] provides insights into how disaster risk management and adaptation may assist vulnerable communities to better cope with a changing climate in a world of inequalities'... |
date: 18 November 2011 'The IPCC Special Report is a plea to governments worldwide to ensure that disaster risk reduction is at the heart of sustainable development during this century of climate change,' declared Margareta Wahlström... |
date: 18 November 2011 Meeting the challenge of managing of extremes is a vital component in adaptation to climate change. But to date there has been no one-stop-shop assessment of experience in the real-time managing... |
date: 18 November 2011 'Rapid urbanization and the growth of megacities, especially in the developing countries, have led to the emergence of highly vulnerable urban communities, particularly through informal settlements'... |
date: 17 November 2011 Climate scientists, disaster risk experts and meteorologists are gathering together to pore over the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) in Uganda... |
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date: 14 November 2011 Europapress informó que el Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino participará en Kampala en las reuniones en el que se prevé la aprobación del Informe Especial sobre la gestión de los riesgos de los eventos extremos: 'este documento es especialmente relevante para España'... |
date: 30 June 2009 Call issued to Governments and Observer Organizations: the Special Report, to be undertaken following IPCC procedures and with the involvement of the UNISDR, is expected to be released in the second half of 2011. Deadline: 27 July 2009... |