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'So the damage lowered the risk assessment, it did not teach a lesson, but instead, it made the Japanese people more vulnerable than before,' said Satoko Oki, an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo...

'This is one of the first steps. As part of the national platform for disaster risk reduction, we must cooperate with all ministries and departments,' said the Armenian emergency situations minister...

The Center for American Progress (CAP) asserts that if the US invest in international climate finance, it would enhance their national security, create jobs, and secure relationships with some of their allies...

According to a new UNISDR policy brief launched today at the Durban COP 17, although African countries are committed to reducing flood and drought risks, current investments are found to be wanting, particularly in development sectors.

But when it came to today’s discussion in particular on adaptation there were many examples of firms moving ahead with climate risk assessments, leading to new business processes and new products in some cases...

Parliamentarians from around the world gathered in Durban, South Africa, yesterday to press for progress in the COP17 climate change negotiations and called on the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) "to prioritize disaster risk reduction and capacity building as cross-cutting issues and to give them the utmost attention."

There is evidence of more extreme and unseasonal weather taking place outside the natural variability and cycles of African climate, and that the poorest communities are the least able to adapt...

'The proposed $100bn-a-year Green Climate Fund is not enough to address climate change mitigation and most of it should rather be spent on adaptation measures where more value can be obtained from the funds'...

Hundreds of metres under one of Iceland's largest glaciers are signs of a looming volcanic eruption that could be one of the most powerful the country has seen in almost a century...

'La adaptación basada en los ecosistemas es efectiva, la solución del no arrepentimiento que los gobiernos deberían incorporar de forma proactiva en las políticas nacionales'...