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The environment is the fourth National Strategic Development axis, which poses an 'adequate adaptation to climate change and specifically reduced vulnerability, progress in adapting to the impacts of climate change and contribute to the mitigation of its causes,' said Jeffrey Lizardo, director of the Economy Ministry’s Economic and Social Development Department...
'Scientists and experts from different countries and European Union and UN representatives called for measures bolster the mitigation of natural disasters in the Caribbean, especially in places like Haiti, still reeling from the powerful quake of 2010,' reports Dominican Today...
The Dominican Today highlights the country's need for equipment such as weather radars and regrets that risk mitigation projects have not yet evolved into permanent and sustainable policies...
In a statement issued by Intemón Oxfam (Spain), last week, the non-governmental organization warned of the Dominican Republic’s vulnerability to natural hazards and regretted the Government’s 'lack of resolve' to deal with the situation...
'The risk management process not only implies a response to events, but also mitigation, and above all prevention' said Juan Pablo Sarmiento, co-director of the Risk Disaster Reduction Program of the Latin American and Caribbean Center...
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