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Un total de US$50 millones servirá para financiar una matriz energética sostenible e implementar medidas ante riesgo de desastres naturales según reporta El Comercio...

The CDKN Innovation Fund is designed as an open competitive fund to provide fast-moving support for creative initiatives in the field of climate change and international development, with several application rounds over the next year (2011-12)...

Four communities in Jamaica will benefit from a new Jamaica Community-based Jamaica Landslide Risk Reduction Project according to the Jamaica Observer.'Landslide risk is an incredibly multidisciplinary problem, it's a social problem, it's a technical engineering problem, it's a water problem and a housing problem', said an OPDEM senior director...

'Il me semble quand même normal, dans un pays où tout le monde a la téléphonie mobile, que les services de secours puissent, en cas de crise, isoler un bassin de population et prévenir les gens sur leur téléphone portable de la catastrophe qui arrive', déclare Nicolas Sarkozy selon Reuters...

The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) through the Ministry of Trade, Regional Integration and Employment, gave US$150, 000 (D3, 201, 455) to the government of The Gambia at a brief presentation ceremony held at State House...

Fiji launches the National Disaster Awareness Week Media Campaign 'Disaster management is everyone's responsibility' - a call for people to change their attitude in taking early warning and preparedness seriously, according to FijiVillage.com...

In order to avoid massive losses, the early warning system for each and every district would be introduced in the first National Disaster Risk Reduction Policy (NDRRP) in December with the special collaboration of meteorological office...

In this op-ed for New Age, M Mizanur Rahman argues that though there are interventions of different non-government organisations for disaster risk reduction, these cannot address the issue entirely until or unless these are integrated with livelihood programmes and income generating activities...

In a further sign that Africa is mobilizing for its voice to be heard at the COP17 negotiations in Durban, the Mayors of major cities and chairmen of local governments across West Africa met this week in Lagos, Nigeria, to endorse and sign the African Mayors Climate Change Declaration.

'Entregaremos a los agricultores semillas de arroz en las comunidades que, producto de las lluvias y crecimiento de ríos, perdieron sus cultivos.'...