Governance

The National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project, planned to commence early April in Orissa, is intended to strengthen disaster preparedness in the State, now facing climate change and being rendered increasingly vulnerable to disasters...

Proposed by Norway and the Secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) System

This paper lays out policy linkages of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction. Norway and the United Nations International Strategy

Addendum to the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, Report of the Secretary-General: General Assembly Economic and Social Council A/54/132/Add.1 – E/1999/80/Add.1

The present report conveys the views of the Scientific and Technical

Developed and developing country governments gave an important signal for action on adaptation yesterday by deciding which countries will be offered funding under a pilot program within the US$6 billion Climate Investment Funds...

Held in collaboration with UNDP, a two-day national inter-ministerial dialogue on climate change was recently held bringing together decision-makers at all levels...

Mission data will help scientists reduce uncertainties in predicting future carbon dioxide increases and make more accurate climate change predictions...

The goal of this interdisciplinary study is to better understand the land use factors that increase vulnerability of mountain areas in northern Pakistan. The study will identify and analyse the damages and losses caused by the October 2005 earthquake in

This new edition of the State of the World provides hope amidst the grim certainty that we are living in the early years of a vast unplanned change in the planet’s climate. All the authors in this book agree that it is anything but too late to save the