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'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...

On the occasion of the launch of the World Meteorological Organisation report at the UN Climate talks in Mexico which highlights that 2010 is on track to be one of the hottest years since modern records began and possibly the hottest, Simon Lauder interviews Michel Jarraud, WMO secretary-general for ABC...

'The Pacific simply cannot solve some of the problems it's facing' said Margareta Wahlstrom, the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative on Disaster Risk Reduction, in an interview with Radio Australia. 'It requires a change of climate policies globally to really help them and involve them in the solutions...