Private sector

NASA and Cisco Inc. have announced a partnership to develop 'Planetary Skin', an online collaborative global monitoring platform to capture, collect, analyze and report data on environmental conditions...

Report From the adaptation study team to IDRC

The purpose of this report is to present the results from a strategic gap analysis the Institute for Social and Environmental Transition (ISET) and other members of the Adaptation Study Team have undertaken

The launch of Planetary Skin, a new platform for measurement, reporting and verification is hoped to enable the unlocking of US$350 billion per year in 2010–2020 for mitigation and adaptation to climate change...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, 1 Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report, forecasts that climate change will have significant impacts on populations and environments around the world. Furthermore, it is likely

The present report constitutes the Mid-Term Report submitted to the World Bank by the UNISDR secretariat for the World Bank’s Development Grant Facility (DGF) FY08.

Through Track-I, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) responds to

All of society - the public and the private sector – ends up facing the consequences of disasters. It follows that all of society, the private sector included, has a role to play in reducing disaster risk. Natural hazards need not result automatically in

On the occasion of the International Day for Disaster Reduction, to be held on 12 October 2005, and to mark the International Year of Micro credit, the secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction is launching a global debate on how

Hurricane Katrina caused more than $125 billion in economic losses in the United Sates, four times more than Hurricane Andrew in 1992, which had been the most expensive natural disaster in American history. Of these economic losses, only one third was