Mission
- Floodlist want to bring to people’s attention the risks and devastation posed by floods and flooding.
- It hopes to help people understand more about floods, and what they can do to prepare, protect themselves, get insured, and stay safe.
- To discuss flooding issues from the persepective of the people who are involved and who are affected.
- Its outlook is global. Although the main base is in Europe, it has contacts, contributors and writers based around the world, and it aims to include flooding news from all countries and continents.
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A new report from Rewilding Britain highlights the positive impact it could have on UK’s flood risk. Flooding costs the UK economy more than £1 billion annually, rising near £5 billion in a bad year. Rewilding has the cobenefit of creating vibrant natural landscapes while also soaking up greater quantities of CO2, helping bring the economy towards carbon neutrality.
Many of the world’s large international airports are near sea level - and increasingly at flood risk. The closure of an airport due to flooding hampers the delivery of disaster relief supplies, impacting negatively on surrounding communities well beyond the airport itself. Options for addressing the risk of flooding of airports range from the mundane to the magnificent.
The village of Tukuraki in Ba, Fiji, will be moved and relocated to a safer area, away from the threat of landslides and other natural hazards. Its vulnerable location has resulted in a recent wave of disasters while still struggling to recover from the previous. A new site was selected with a geo-technical assessment completed by the Mineral Resources Department.
The Environment Agency in England is set to team up with digital communications company EE to send flood warnings to mobile phone users in the south-west of the country, reports Floodlist. This is the first time that flood warnings in England will be issued directly through a mobile network operator...
Costa Rica’s National Emergency Commission are carrying out assessments of the damage caused by heavy rain and floods that hit the nation’s Caribbean and Northern regions on 21 June 2015, reports Floodlist. The Instituto Meteorológico Nacional is warning people to remain extremely vigilant in the Caribbean and Northern regions, particularly in areas prone to flooding and landslides...
Over the past decades, the Bangladesh government has invested more than 10 billion dollars to make the country less vulnerable to natural disasters. The Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 will focus on developing sustainable flood protection in Bangladesh. It also aims to ensure a sufficient supply of clean drinking water and improve sanitation...
A recent survey by Know Your Flood Risk, the campaign to raise awareness of the risk of flooding in the UK, indicates that two-thirds of UK households fail to check flood risk levels, identifying a lack of awareness over flood planning and responsibility, despite 1 in 6 homes being considered at risk, reports Floodlist...
Sri Lanka has launched a $3.4m project aimed to increase coastal resilience to damage caused by floods, erosion, tsunamis and storm surge, reports Floodlist. 'After the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, it became evident – particularly in Sri Lanka which was severely impacted – that those villages that had intact mangroves suffered significantly less damage than those that did not'...
Voluntary Commitments
The organization has no registered commitments.
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.