Governance

The negotiating text covers issues including enhanced action on adaptation, mitigation and finance, technology and capacity-building. Vulnerability to climate change is on the agenda of the Global Platform...

Ministers from more than 30 African countries adopted the Nairobi Declaration on climate at a weeklong special session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment in Nairobi...

Through a partnership with the EC, UNICEF is seeking to reduce the risks posed by natural and man-made disasters in Uzbekistan. More than 300 schools in 36 vulnerable communities are now working to assess and mitigate the risk of disasters....

Jamaica's Prime Minister, Bruce Golding is creating a network of young people to help the country in emergency situations. Disaster preparedness and risk reduction training will also be given to 150 communities across the island...

African environment ministers have agreed to mainstream climate change adaptation measures into national and regional development plans, policies and strategies...

This article - published by the Economic Times, of India - stresses the need to make disaster management part of the new government's agenda...

Chinese Vice Premier Minister Hui Liangyu addressed the importance of disaster prevention in the north of the country, which suffers from drought...

This report is a follow-up evaluation of linkages between immediate relief, rehabilitation (or reconstruction) and development (LRRD) related to the response to the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. The LRRD2 evaluation report covers experiences up to the end of 2008 in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, i.e. from the four years after the disaster. A number of organisations and government agencies have supported this evaluation in various ways, with the aim to provide conclusions and lessons learned that are useful for mitigating the consequences of possible future disasters.