Update

'We need to immediately put in place measures for recovery, resilience and work more intensively in disaster risk reduction,' said Olivia Yambi, UNICEF Country Representative in Kenya...

In this article for the Independant, M. Mizanur Rahman and Javed Ameer show why, with the existing situation of the country, Bangladesh needs the enactment of a Disaster Management Act on an urgent basis...

While Solomon Islands have become actively engaged in regional as well as global conventions and initiatives aimed at mitigating the impacts of climate change in the country, 'these positive gains can easily be disrupted by corruption which will ruin our collective efforts to combat climate change.'...

Today Online reports that Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean has highlighted terrorism, cyber attacks, 'natural' disasters and pandemics as key threats businesses must guard against...

In an interview for Republica, Shoko Noda, the newly appointed country director of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Nepal, says UNDP has added disaster risk reduction as one of the core areas in their portfolio...

'The reality is that governments are wedded to emergency response and remain painfully slow to invest in disaster risk reduction strategies. We know which parts of the world are most disaster-prone and that lives can be saved through preventative measures.'...

More than 200 participants, including 38 parliamentarians, mayors and vice mayors, from 33 countries adopted the Chengdu Declaration of Action, a five-point strategy to tackle some of the most pressing issues facing cities today.

The government will set up an environmental assessment and monitoring authority to streamline the process of environmental clearances, according to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, reports Zee News. The PM also referred to eight missions on climate change, adaptation among them...

In his World 2.0 blog post, Johann Dupuis asks, might limits to adaptation - besides economic, ecological and technological - also be societal or political obstacles to the successful implementation of adaptation policy? But which ones? A look at the case of Switzerland...

The success of this first test paves the way for the establishment of regional tsunami warning centres. The first two, Turkey’s KOERI and the Atomic Energy Centre in France, should be operational some time in 2012 when a more exhaustive test will be conducted. Others are planned for Greece, Italy and Portugal at a later date...