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'I would say in general the world is not at all well prepared for these [extreme weather] events which are becoming far more serious and far more frequent' said Dr Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in an interview with ABC's environment reporter Sarah Clarke...
Janak Rogers of Radio Australia interviews Apurva Sanghi, senior World Bank economist at the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction & Recovery and lead author of the report 'Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters', on what it all means for the Pacific...
'I think the critical thing is to support countries building the maximum resilience which is possible for these disasters' said Helen Clark, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) head in an interview with ABC Radio Australia, on reconstruction efforts in Pakistan and the recent devastating earthquake in New Zealand...
One of the largest insurance company's (QBE) chief executive, Frank O'Halloran said, in an interview with ABC, that the Queensland floods and the earthquake in Christchurch have forced a rethinking of the risk strategy for the region...
In an interview to ABC, the Team Leader for DRR for the Secretariat's Geoscience division SOPAC, presents the three agreements to fund interventions to reduce public health risks resulting from contaminated drinking water, inadequate sanitation and drought that have been signed between the Government of New Caledonia and SPC...
The Queensland Government has stated that the water released from Wivenhoe Dam prior to the flooding in Brisbane last month may not have helped the situation. 'Some of the work that's already been done shows that if you reduce Wivenhoe Dam by certain amounts, modelled against the flooding event we saw last month, it wouldn't have had a noticeable impact' said Natural Resources Minister Stephen Robertson...
'We were extremely lucky that it's come through between the two major regional centres here, Cairns and Townsville' said cyclone expert Jonathan Nott in an interview with ABC. 'Mitigation strategies haven't improved in all that time [since cyclone Larry]. We're still not thinking seriously enough about where people should live and how to keep them safe and how to keep them out of the road of danger'...
A delegation from Haiti recently visited Yogyakarta and Aceh to learn from the reconstruction efforts from the disasters that have hit both places in 2004, 2006 and 2010, reports ABC in the World Today...
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