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Pupils at Outspan Primary School in Bwaise, a poor, flood-prone neighbourhood in Kampala, Uganda, are learning how to collect meteorological data – and, along the way, something about how climate change increasingly will affect their lives...
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) - Headquarters
'Long term investments are required to enable communities to prepare for disasters and reduce their risks. This alone can significantly reduce the loss of human life and humanitarian impact of disaster on communities and nations,' said Unni Krishnan, Plan’s head of disaster response and preparedness...
Plan International headquarters
'Although there is growing awareness that improving the management of ecosystems and natural resources plays an essential role in reducing human vulnerability to disasters, there has been a lag investing in disaster risk reduction in general, and in ecosystem-based solutions for risk reduction in particular'...
United Nations Environment Programme
'One of the lessons of these complementary studies is that our reshaping of the environment can often have unintended consequences—and we may not have any idea of what they are until it’s too late'...
Smithsonian magazine
'We need to move away from a piecemeal, crisis-driven approach and develop integrated risk-based national drought policies,' said World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General Michel Jarraud...
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
United Nations News Centre
'We want to make sure that the work of climate change becomes as much a part of city government as repairing pot holes,' said Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn on a recently passed climate change adaptation bill which will make recommendations for the city's adaptation to the increasingly frequent storms, heat waves and to the sea level rise...
New York Times, the
'Australia and our partners will reduce the risks from climate change-related natural disasters and threats to food and water security, helping 500,000 vulnerable people,' says Australian Ambassador to Vietnam, Hugh Borrowman...
Tuoitrenews, Tuoi Tre Newspaper
by HeyWayne CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/heywayne/4190452673
'The organisational dimensions of infrastructure services will play a vital role in future disasters, determining the speed and effectiveness of both initial emergency responses, and also the longer recovery and restoration of the wide range of infrastructure services'...
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