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'The world is better prepared to face past calamities like the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami but it's not ready for the extreme weather of the future,' warned Margareta Wahlstrom, the special representative of the U.N. secretary-general for disaster risk reduction...
'Severe storms, for instance, have been hitting Sydney a lot in the last few weeks and have been causing a lot of damage. You don't have to think about climate change to think about how you would reduce your vulnerability to those sorts of storms or flash flooding'...
To strengthen SIDS' resilience we must see disaster risk reduction as climate change adaptation as two sides of the same coin,' said the head of the United Nations Development Program, Helen Clark at the UN conference on small island developing states (SIDS) in Samoa...
Singson and Admiral Alexander Pama, the executive director of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said the government was more prepared this time, after the devastation caused by Super Typhoon Haiyan in November, evacuating people at risk in coastal and landslide-prone areas well before the typhoon made landfall...
Australia has has granted additional aid worth $AUD3 million to improve land use and establish early warning systems in communities hit by Haiyan, reports ABC.
All key stakeholders and national agencies in the fields of weather, climate services, climate change and disaster risk management have been meeting in Suva to have their final input to the latest draft.
The strategy aims to strengthen climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction...
Non-government organisations across the Pacific have been recognised for reducing the impact disasters have in the region. 'The whole reason we came up with this award in the first place was that we really wanted to encourage and celebrate all the work that is being done in the Pacific,' said Tim Wilcox...
Drought policy specialist Linda Botterill adheres to the view that the worst time to try and develop a clear-eyed drought policy is during a drought arguing that there is a case to be made for taxpayer-funded drought assistance, 'but it needs to be well thought through in advance, and not developed in the heat of an argument of a drought'...
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