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'An open exchange of information, including real time data, helps to synchronize planning and resource deployment needed for effective disaster risk reduction,' stated Dr Nguyen Huu Phuc, who also Co-Chairs the APEC Emergency Preparedness Working Group. 'Identifying possible areas of joint cooperation is a key element of our agenda'...

Risk reduction and recovery from these extreme events are imperative. Conventional infrastructure and emerging technologies will be important factors in solutions; however, there also seems to be a role for nature to play, states Leonardo Sáenz is CI’s director of eco-hydrology...

A total of 391 staffs and volunteers and more than 20,000 listeners’ club members were involved constantly in disseminating disaster preparedness message and information to the local community. They updated and informed the cyclone situation at a regular frequency...

'We have to install the most advanced technology as a warning system and for the prevention of natural disasters. This will ensure capital inflow and investments to disaster-prone areas continue flourishing,' Syamsul Maarif, chairman of Indonesia’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency told the 7th Senior Disaster Management Officials Forum...

'A major barrier to responding to climate change in Central African Republic is the ongoing conflict and insecurity which hampers any poverty reduction or development efforts, including efforts to adapt to climate change,' said Carolyn Peach Brown, a professor at the University of Prince Edward Island...

Coming from a city that has a reputation for setting trends, the hope is that New York’s efforts will stimulate heat-vulnerability assessment at a more local scale across the world, helping to combat a silent but growing killer...

Denmark and Bangladesh has signed an agreement on a Climate Change Adaptation Pilot Project (CCAPP). The project will facilitate strengthening rural infrastructure including drainage and flood protection systems. It will also raise community awareness and improve access to cyclone shelters...

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