News and announcements

The Environment Agency is calling for community representatives to get involved in a project aiming to help communities get better prepared for the future effects of rising sea levels, increased flood risk and sinking land levels...

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has been urged to quickly finalize the National Action Plan for Climate Change and to continue updating scenarios of climate change and sea level rise; verify projects on coping with climate change and sea level rise...

The seventh edition of the Global Risks report emphasizes the 'importance of flexibility and resilience in response structures,' giving an example of quickly resumed business after the disaster thanks to networked preparedness...

The U.S Agency for International Development (USAID)'s new development strategy marks the first time climate change will play a central role throughout the entire agency’s development efforts...

USAID has sent a team of seismologists and geologists to create hazard map products that will form the basis for developing seismic guidelines for the rebuilding of habitation and infrastructure...

ACTED reports that 2011 was 'a year of transition and continued commitment' in Haiti, working on the prevention and mitigation of potential disasters that have been threatening the country regularly. They plan to continue contingency planning and disaster prevention and mitigation before the next hurricane season...

As Haiti recovers from a catastrophe it is common sense to be better prepared for another potentially catastrophic event that may put Haitians in harm's way and threaten the progress achieved so far...

On the occasion of the two-year commemoration of the Haitian earthquake today, the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative on Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström, recognized the significant progress made over the last two years in dealing with the consequences of the disaster which took over 220,000 lives and left hundreds of thousands homeless.