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The Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Shri Kiren Rijiju has said India will implement the Sendai Framework in letter and spirit. Inaugurating a workshop on Enhancing Private Sector Partnership for Disaster Risk Reduction, Shri Rijiju said that India has upscaled its efforts to assist its neighbours and other countries in the field of disaster risk reduction, reports Business Standard...
With the ministerial-level talks to begin next week at the UN climate summit in Lima, Peru, India's position remains very strong on the need for a balanced inclusion of adaptation efforts in the 2015 Paris agreement and less focus on mitigation, reports Business Standard...
'We want to work towards what community and society should do to mitigate economic losses,' Margareta Wahlstorm, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Disaster Risk Reduction told Business Standard in Odisha, India...
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Head of Division South Asia, Dr Thomas Helfen stated that 'Climate change calls for informed and integrated decision making. Compartmentalised sectoral knowledge and data is just not enough in the face of threats posed by climate change'...
Following the devastation in parts of Uttarakhand, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) is expected to make a proposal on Thursday to create a network of laboratories in the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-13 to 2016-17) for managing epidemic and natural calamity...
In an opinion piece, Pierre Jacquet, chief economist of the French Development Agency, stresses the need to support climate change mitigation and adaptation programmes initiated by governments, companies and civil society and highlights France's commitment to India, a country which 'has the potential to lead the way'...
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