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In his post, Senior Attorney and Natural Resources Defense Council's staff Jon Devine answers the questions: What kind of damage will Irene do? Is your city prepared for it? An NRDC report providies some insight by exploring similar anticipated impacts from extreme weather...

The forum has greatly advanced the activity of 'focusing on disaster prevention and reduction in cities, making cities more resilient and focusing on a sustainable development of world cities.'...

The new agency aims to coordinate the country’s policies on climate change mitigation and adaptation and forest conservation, and help Suriname win international funding to help it deal with climate impacts and adopt a lower carbon development strategy, reports AlertNet. The report highlights neighbouring Guyana, with funding from Norway, as another example...

As part of the process to develop the disaster risk reduction and management plan of the province, the provincial gov held a four-day workshop on mainstreaming DRR in development planning and capability development assessment on climate change adaptation...

Lack of monitoring in the region poses a challenge to those trying to understand the once-in-a-century event, reports Richard Monastersky for Nature...

'We know which cities are most at risk: Bogota, Cairo, Caracas, Dhaka, Islamabad, Istanbul, Jakarta, Karachi, Katmandu, Lima, Manila, Mexico City, New Delhi, Quito and Tehran. Los Angeles and Tokyo are prime candidates for a major quake, but they will probably survive because they are well-built — though LA could do better. New York is at greater risk than people realize.'...

Selon une étude publiée dans le magazine scientifique Nature, les phénomènes climatiques d'El Niño et La Niña seraient à l'origine des conflits qui touchent plusieurs pays à travers le monde déclare l'Agence France Presse (AFP)...

Speaking at the launch of the National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Preparedness Fund, MENAFN reports that Head of State said 'it would be cheaper to enforce prevention laws rather than wait for a response that may cost the country high'... 'The time for sentiment and sympathy is over, the law enforcement agencies should do the appropriate thing to keep the country safe,' averred President Ernest Bai Koroma as he declared war on disaster-prone communities across the country...

Four Pacific islanders will participate in a ten month climate observers' training programme supported through a project encouraging the exchange best practices between SIDS in the Pacific and the Caribbean, in order to find suitable solutions for addressing the various threats posed by climate change and disasters...

The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) and its stakeholders would soon come out with guidelines for builders - artisans, land developers, Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) - to incorporate disaster risk reduction in their projects...