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The European Commission and the Global Risk Forum GRF Davos have signed an MoU to provide customer driven scientific and technical support for the conception, development implementation and monitoring of European Union policies...

Last week more than 1,200 community residents of the Calabanga municipality in the Philippines, displayed their evacuation skills through a community drill in the latest in a series of activities on community-based disaster risk management and disaster preparedness...

'Life beneath the surface at the Bonanza Creek, Alaska and Arctic LTER sites is already showing changes' says Henry Gholz, director of NSF's Long-Term Ecological Research program 'It's imperative that we know what's there now, to better plan for the future'...

Students from eight schools in Calabanga, Philippines competed Friday in 'quiz bee' and art competitions to showcase awareness and knowledge in disaster reduction in public schools...

An Oxfam Australia report published this week highlights the urgent need for next week’s Pacific Islands Forum in Cairns to address the dramatic effects of climate change within the region...

The National Emergency Management Organization of Belize is participating in a two-day workshop on risk assessment, formally known as CAPRA, or the Central American Probabilistic Risk Assessment, an initiative of the Inter-American Development Bank...

Plans to create a graduate school of disaster management in Indonesia, in cooperation with the United Nations University, in Japan, were announced yesterday by Rustam Pakaya, head of the Ministry of Health’s crisis center in Indonesia....

In a significant move, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is set to produce a 'how to' manual for policy-makers and disaster officials on managing the risks of extreme weather events and bolstering resilience, to promote adaptation to global warming...

A seminar, 'Linking Climate Change to Disaster Risk Reduction', jointly organised by Oxfam and Strengthening Participatory Organisation (SPO) was held in Islamabad yesterday to discuss the nature of disasters in Pakistan and to design risk reduction strategies...

Stressing that adaptation to the impact of climate change is an 'essential investment in our common future,' UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged countries rich and poor to take practical steps to deal with the impact of global warming...