This theme addresses the capacity of the private sector to understand and anticipate, mitigate and manage situations arising from natural and man-made hazards, as well as contribute to building the capacity and resilience of communities to disasters.
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On the occasion of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Swiss Re held a roundtable debate to discuss solutions to bridging the financing gaps that governments and individuals around the world can experience in the wake of a natural disaster, or the newer challenge of rising pension costs...
At the 2011 World Economic Forum in Davos, Swiss Re highlights new innovations in risk financing that strengthen societies’ resilience to global risks and reduce the financial burden on governments, corporations and individuals alike...
The city government and IBM signed an agreement to build a public information management center for Rio de Janeiro. The Rio Operations Center will integrate and interconnect information from multiple government departments and public agencies in the municipality to improve city safety and responsiveness to various types of incidents, such as flash floods and landslides...
Four Canadian engineering firms have joined forces to help rebuild Haitian schools with local contractors and communities, ensuring that the technical aspects of the construction are met so that the new schools are hurricane and earthquake resistant...
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Initial siren sites with high population concentrations in low-lying areas that are at risk for tsunamis have been chosen for the implementation of a system which will sound automatically if a tsunami warning is generated by the Alaska Tsunami Warning Center or the Puerto Rico Seismic Network...
This draft summary seeks to provide a brief introduction of disaster risk reduction (DRR) to industry. It gathers material to inform, motivate and direct collaboration between the private sector and the United Nations as part of the development of an
Acknowledging their "critical role in an effective disaster risk reduction strategy," UNISDR will bring together representatives from leading companies in an inaugural meeting of the Private Sector Advisory Group, on 17 December in Geneva. Ten companies forming the Advisory Group are DuPont Sustainable Solutions, PricewaterhouseCoopers SA, Willis Re and Willis Research Network, United Nations Foundation, MunichRe Foundation, Dow Chemical Europe, Titan America, Arup International, Credit Suisse and Small Equity Initiative. Along with other members of the private sector, the Advisory Group will discuss -- for the first time -- the "Ten Essentials for Business in Disaster Risk Reduction," outlining ways in which private companies can support governments to develop institutions and legislation to bolster disaster risk reduction.
'Adaptation to climate change is no longer the exclusive ambit of the public sector. Investment in adaptation makes business sense, due both to the need for companies to climate-proof their operations, as well as to the new business opportunities opening in the area of adaptation' said Christiana Figueres commenting on a report released by PwC...
