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El Banco Mundial ha definido que el agua estará en el centro de la ayuda que prestará a los países para adaptarse al cambio climático y Colombia es uno de ellos...

Joseph Myers, who was Florida’s emergency manager from 1993-2001, addresses the need for a national strategy in the Miami Herald: 'one that is rooted in strong building codes that can help mitigate the impact of major storms.'(...)

The German Red Cross has started a project dealing with the vulnerable communities on the Coast of Hatiya Island to enhance the capacities of these communities to prepare for and respond to an emergency or a natural hazard...

Pakistan and Germany signed an agreement to carry out research in flood-hit areas to gain a social perspective on the vulnerability, resilience and coping strategies of the average local population in the socio-cultural, political and economic context...

A delegation of US technicians is currently visiting Cuba to discuss joint measures to prevent oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico notes China Daily. This visit takes place in order to avoid a major environmental disaster like the one by British Petroleum (BP) in 2010...

In tackling forest and land fires, two strategies involving land and air prevention will be taken, reports VIVAnews. The use of aircraft has been tested for decades in artificial rain operations, either to overcome land and forest fires or floods and droughts...

As the General Assembly's 65th session opened with a world summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Mr. Deiss said that progress has been satisfactory over the past year in dealing with several issues. He mentioned the debate on disaster risk reduction among others...

Balkans.com reports that Ivica Dacic, Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, and Margareta Wahlström, UN SRSG for Disaster Risk Reduction, stated that in order to prevent global risks of 'natural' disasters it is important to engage local communities in the process...

Senator Loren Legarda reiterated her appeal to the government to prioritize measures concerning disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) as Philippines is highly vulnerable to calamities - both natural and manmade...

President John Evans Atta Mills noted that some disasters in the past few weeks could have been avoided if adequate preventive and protective measures had been put in place...