News and announcements

'Water is the primary medium through which climate change and natural disasters influence peoples' livelihoods and wellbeing, and better water management is a key element to building resilience and adaptive capacity to these impacts'...

'These flood management projects should help us ensure the well-being of many at-risk Filipinos — and allow us to sustain our economic growth — even in the face of national disasters,' Secretary Florencio B. Abad said...

New Zealand government has announced a review of the Earthquake Commission Act 1993 in order to support efficient management of 'natural' disaster risk and recovery and reduce the potential for socially-unacceptable distress and loss for property owners caused by 'natural' disasters...

'The government spent 2.8 per cent of national Gross Domestic Product in 2010-11 on climate adaptation measures, with the aim of reducing the impact of global warming and climate change on various sections of the population,' said Dipak Dasgupta, Principal Economic Adviser to the Union Finance Ministry...

The Lake Chilwa Basin Climate Change Adaptation Programme (LCBCCAP) is running a basin-wide programme to build the resilience of people and the local ecosystem through the promotion of tree-planting, the rearing of small livestock and the use of shallow well irrigation systems...

The Rome meeting will provide the opportunity to discuss advances triggered by the Programme on various cross cutting themes, such as women involvement in Civil Protection, building shared risk assessment capacities, exchange of early warning information, awareness raising and education to prevention, new methods for exchanging knowledge and expertise...

NAC received funding from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) in order to start a new project aiming to reduce human, social, economical and environmental losses due to natural hazards in 60 at-risk villages in four different districts...

'Natural phenomena like storms, floods and heavy snow have a big impact on the power supply of providers. Natural phenomena cause long lasting incidents, around 45 hours on average,' a new report published by the European Network and Information Security Agency found...