Speakers at the recent 2009 Annual Critical Infrastructure Protection Congress concluded that the best strategy for mitigating the effects of all hazards is to “fill the gap” through the development and maintenance of resilient organizational critical infrastructures...
More than 90 world experts have assembled today in Panama City to start a new assessment on how climate change will affect disaster risks in future and how countries can better manage the expected increases in damaging weather events due to climate change. The meeting is being convened by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which decided in April 2009 to prepare a new IPCC Special Report called: “Managing the Risk of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation”. The assessment was proposed by the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) and the government of Norway in response to the predictions in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report that more frequent and severe extreme events such as droughts, floods, storms, heat waves were likely in the future warmer world. View full story
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
The international Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (the IDRiM Society) and its Journal (IDRiM Journal) were launched in Kyoto, Japan, at the 9th IIASA-DPRI Forum on Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM Forum)...
UNISDR, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery of the World Bank, UNDP Syria and the Syrian Ministry for Local Administration convened a regional workshop on Urban Risk Reduction in Damascus on 4-5 November 2009. More than forty participants representing local authorities, researchers, academic experts, international and regional organizations have gathered to discuss regional priorities and challenges with respect to urban risk reduction as well as key actions to be undertaken regionally, nationally and locally to build safer cities and increase resilience to disasters. View full story
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Arab States
According to the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the plan is intended to 'serve as a direct channel of communication relating to the urgent adaptation needs of Afghanistan to the effect of climate change'...
'Vietnam's response to storms and flooding has radically improved in the past few years' said Ian Wilderspin of UNDP, 'a lot can be done but a lot has been done to reduce the risk..if you look at the scale and complexity of these storms, it's a challenge' he added...
Bolivia will be battered on five fronts by climate change, according to a new report published by Oxfam International today. The report underlines what is at stake at UN climate talks in Barcelona and an EU-US Summit in Washington today...
Dawn Goodwin, who has recently returned from Ethiopia, says that the organisation's staff on the ground are working tirelessly to respond to the immediate needs and build ongoing relationships with local communities to help them to achieve long-term change...
'The poorest among the poorest continue to suffer heavy losses, their development investments are undermined. We need to scale up, learn more about earthquake science and focus on best practices to mitigate damage' said Margareta Wahlström of UNISDR...
The second India Disaster Management Congress will be held in New Delhi from today. The three day Congress is expected to bring together 1500 scientists, scholars and practitioners working on different aspects of disaster risk reduction and management from across the world...
