Pakistan floods 2010-2011

New report on Pakistan floods urges preventive steps to protect millions from climate displacement

'The massive flooding in Pakistan is a wake-up call that starkly highlights the real threats we face from climate-related disasters' said Michel Gabaudan, president of Refugees International. 'It is in our best interest to plan now for the massive human displacement they cause and protect those most at risk'...

This report explores what climate-induced displacement looks like and outlines steps to ensure that U.S. and international agencies address the threat that climate change poses to economic, political and human security. It calls for the international

UN to help strengthen Pakistan's disaster risk reduction strategies

During her visit to Pakistan this week, the UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary of UNESCAP will be convening a High Level Meeting in collaboration with the Government of Pakistan and the UN Country Team to support the country's disaster risk reduction strategies and recovery and reconstruction plans, particularly regarding flood...

Pakistan hopes to build back better after floods

'It's important to keep in mind that disasters cannot be prevented but better preparedness can help reduce the damage and mitigate the worst impact,' Pakistan's Ambassador to Thailand, Sohail Mahmood said on the International Day for Disaster Reduction...

Pakistan: Lady health workers in flood-affected villages

In Pakistan, lady health workers play an increasingly important role in bridging gaps between the health sector and local communities for flood-affected people. People in the camps move regularly, especially in unregistered camps. The demand for information and health interventions change weekly...

Pakistan floods one month on: Planning for reconstruction must begin

'In some areas, disaster risk reduction strategies had been implemented properly over the last few years. Early warning systems were in place, boats were provided and communities were mobilized in time to rescue hundreds of thousands of people. The challenge ahead now is to help the state to do this on a far bigger scale' said Neva Khan, Oxfam's Country Director in Pakistan...

Pakistan: Awaiting new floods

'We are concerned whether the barrage will be able to withstand the tremendous flow of the water,' said Prof Qamar-Uz-Zaman Chaudhry, head of the Pakistan Meteorological Department and a member of the government's task force on climate change referring to the high water level at the Kotri Barrage...

Recent weather disasters: Are jet streams to blame?

In Pakistan millions of lives have been set adrift by floods, in Russia wheat crops have been shrivelled by drought and devoured by fire. Some scientists think the floods and the fires could be linked by a persistent pattern of waves in the high-altitude flows of air called jet streams...

AP: Long, hot summer of fire, floods fits predictions

In an interview with the Associated Press, Salvano Briceno of the UNISDR pointed to aggravating factors in the latest climate catastrophes: China's failure to stem deforestation; Russia's poor forest management; and the settling of poor Pakistanis on flood plains and dry riverbeds...

Pakistan floods shows threat from warmer world: scientists

'Pakistan, like any flood-prone country, needed early warning systems, better storage of drinking water, even to move people from vulnerable areas,' said Andrew Ash, who leads a climate adaptation programme for Australia's state-funded research body the CSIRO in a report by Reuters...