News and announcements

'The best and most sustainable way of keeping insurance affordable in the long-term is to help prevent flooding in the first place. We are spending more than £2.1 billion on flood risk management, and are on course to exceed our goal to better protect 145,000 homes by March 2015,' said Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman...

'This loan leverages actions for risk knowledge, its reduction and disaster risk management as pillars of national policy and the National System for Disaster Risk Management, as established by the recent 1523 Law from April 2012,' said Carlos Iván Márquez Pérez, Director of National Unit for Disaster Risk Management...

UNDP launches a new project on disaster risk reduction in South-East and East Kazakhstan funded by the ECHO, UNDP in Kazakhstan and the Red Crescent Society of the Republic of Kazakhstan. UNDP will support concrete community-level measures to minimize the damage from flooding and landslides, aiming to create a resilient society supported by strong communities...

Communication has a role in all levels of climate change adaptation efforts; from the dialogue that establishes multi-governmental agreements, the positive public opinion required to introduce national polices to implementing new practices at local levels. But building adaptive capacity at the local level seems the most complex and challenging....

'We must take adaptation more seriously if we are to manage the growing risks of floods and droughts. This can be done by investing more in flood defences, faster rollout of water meters and giving serious consideration to where and how we build (...)."

Ces données sur la nébulosité vont permettre d’évaluer la capacité des modèles à reproduire les propriétés nuageuses en Afrique de l’Ouest, une région pour laquelle les modèles climatiques peinent à s’accorder sur des scénarios de température ou de précipitations pour les prochaines décennies...

CDFA Secretary Karen Ross is announcing the establishment of a consortium of growers, educators, and technical experts in California to study and make recommendations on strategies for climate change adaptation...

'Coastal flood risk management needs to take account of the local features of each section of the coast in order to be managed effectively: a 'one size fits all' approach won't be cost effective,' stated the Environmental Agency...