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The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 guides Member States in reflecting on their own systems for disaster risk management and to foster disaster risk reduction efforts at national and local level. The first priority of the Sendai

Major efforts are underway in Montenegro to reduce the risks from disasters with the launch of a national disaster loss database to mark the 40 th anniversary of a major earthquake.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Europe & Central Asia
Deltares and partners are working with six Eastern European countries in the Sava River basin to implement the Sava Flood Forecasting Warning System. The system collates the data and models of all the individual countries in one shared system and, where possible, establishes a connection between meteorological forecast models and hydro models.
Deltares
In this study, Mediterranean cultural WHS at risk from coastal flooding and erosion under four sea-level rise scenarios until 2100 are assessed.
As extreme weather becomes normal in the Balkans, governments and communities are striving to better understand the climate and disaster risks they face so that they can implement the right policies and strategies. Risk insurance, regional cooperation, social protection, infrastructural safety, and data management are as crucial as ever to the Balkans' resilience.
Understanding Risk
As countries in the Western Balkans continue to grow, so too does their exposure to risk from climate change and natural hazards. Various Balkan states are implementing DRR projects and working across borders to provide better disaster and climate risks measures to all of their citizens.
World Bank, the

This strategy aims at assessing the institutional framework in place and the technological needs that Montenegro must build for mitigation and adaptation purposes. It analyses the following documents and implications for climate change: energy development

The third in the Turn Down the Heat series, this report examines climate scenarios in three regions, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, and Europe and Central Asia, including the prospects and implications for the Western


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