News & Announcements

Explore the latest News and Announcements on disaster risk and resilience in the news, and news from the disaster risk reduction (DRR) community and beyond on the PreventionWeb knowledge.

Although economic losses from natural catastrophes are on the rise, companies and individuals are failing to prepare for low-probability, high-consequence events, found a study 'Managing Catastrophic Risk' by Howard C. Kunreuther of the Wharton School for Risk Management and Geoffrey M. Heal, a finance and economics professor at Columbia Business School...
CFO.com
Communities in Ethiopia work hard to combat land degradation and promote the sustainable use of natural resources while also increasing production and household income. Moreover, they are better prepared for future climate shocks in an area prone to frequent droughts...
World Food Programme
Le gouvernement du Mozambique est en train d'établir une stratégie nationale pour réduire le risque de catastrophes naturelles afin de combattre le changement climatique ainsi que les cyclones, les inondations et la sècheresse auxquels le pays fait face chaque année...
Afriquinfos
Le développement de structures telles que le Projet Appui à l'Intégration de l'Adaptation au Changement climatique dans le développement durable au Sénégal (PA/INTAC) ont pour but d'aider la population à s'adapter aux phénomènes de changements climatiques...
SudQuotidien, Groupe Sud Communication
'We all should target to ensure through the RIMES Platform that disaster resilient communities should possess the capacity to take requisite risk management, mitigation and preparedness actions to withstand extreme natural or human induced hazards,' said H.E. Mr. Vilas Rao Deshmukh, India’s Minister of Earth Sciences, Science & Technology and Planning...
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP)
'We need to make sure that agreements reached at Rio+20 not only recognize disaster impacts on development but commit all of us to work with children and young people to reduce risks in the first place', say UNICEF DRR specialists for National Geographic...
National Geographic Society
'This initiative represents an opportunity for C40 to identify partnerships and resources that can turn plans for adaptation investment into action,' said Jay Carson, executive director of C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, in partnership with the Clinton Climate Initiative...
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability
The largest UN summit ever organized closes today with an urgent worldwide call for accelerated implementation of the international blueprint for disaster risk reduction agreed by all UN member States seven years ago.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean

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