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This policy brief brings out the fact that climate induced disasters and its relevance in South Asia need to have integrated approach to build the resilience of countries in the coming years. It states that the region is periodically afflicted by

This study aims to improve the understanding of the human health dimensions of climate change and how projects in areas other than health, such as agriculture, water financing programs, and disaster risk reduction need to account explicitly for the health

Some of the biggest names in the U.S. private and public sectors gathered in New York on Wednesday at a Pace University Summit on Resilience to see how best partnerships between these two sectors could be developed to strengthen resilience in cities and communities in light of increasing hazards.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean

This knowledge note gathers experiences and lessons learned collected in so called good practice and advisory notes and offered to governments requesting assistance from the World Bank. Based on the proven usefulness of good practice notes in formulating

'Long-term infrastructure investments should be made with the view to the future - what will happen if there is flooding, for example, or an earthquake', EU Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response Kristalina Georgieva told journalists...
FOCUS Information Agency
The Environment Agency is calling for community representatives to get involved in a project aiming to help communities get better prepared for the future effects of rising sea levels, increased flood risk and sinking land levels...
Environment Agency
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has been urged to quickly finalize the National Action Plan for Climate Change and to continue updating scenarios of climate change and sea level rise; verify projects on coping with climate change and sea level rise...
Viet Nam - government

This report analyses the top 10 risks in five categories - economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal and technological - and also highlights "X Factor" risks, the wild card threats which warrant more research, including a volcanic winter, cyber


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