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Following the Fourth High Level Meeting on Disaster Risk Reduction, where 37 African countries issued the Yaoundé Declaration, Nigeria has further aligned with the new international agreement, the Sendai Framework, to curb disaster losses over the next 15 years, with reductions in mortality, the numbers of people affected and the economic damage inflicted by natural and human-induced hazards...
With the increasingly variant weather patterns, NEMA is seeking to build disaster risk management and preparedness among Nigerians. 'We are collaborating with six Nigerian universities for capacity development in disaster risk management, mainstreaming disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into basic and post basic education curricula'...
Mauricio Galindo, head of operations at the intergovernmental International Coffee Organisation warned: 'Climate change is the biggest threat to the industry. If we don't prepare ourselves we are heading for a big disaster...
A new study published in Hydrological Sciences Journal examines the key reasons for increasing frequency and severity of floods; considering whether this is due to improved reporting by the media, an increasing and expanding global population, or whether climate change is the crucial factor...
The Nigerian Federal Government has unveiled its plans to develop a comprehensive National Framework for Climate Service (NFCS), with the aim of equipping Nigerians and policy makers with science-based climate information to enable them to face challenges of climate change...
'It takes a little amount of money to insure against flood, fire, storm damage, landslide, erosion. Insurance means that everybody in every nooks and crannies in Nigeria should be contributing money towards insurance so that the pool of fund available in insurance will make good the losses,' experts told The Guardian...
Nigeria and its institutions in charge of disaster risk reduction and management is participating in the United Nations conference and training programme, which begins this week in Geneva, Switzerland reports The Guardian Nigeria...
The Government of Nigeria is developing adaptation strategies and incorporating early warning into a preparedness and response master-plan according to John Odey, Minister of the Environment...
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