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Climate change adaptation needs of Small Island States (Sids) are among the highest in the world when measured as a proportion of national output. As the United Nations Development Programme explained recently to the Guardian, the upfront costs of such investments are simply too high for small economies to bear...
The Guardian offers climate change adaptation advice particularly focusing on being prepared for increasingly common drought and flood risk. The recommendations include replacing lawns with drought resilient native plants, reducing water usage...
'Attention is often on efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and for good reason. But adaptation is inevitable, so it is positive that there is now political focus on this issue across Europe,' said Hans Bruyninckx, the European Environment Agency's executive director, raising the issue of putting into action the national adaptation strategies for climate change...
The battle looms over the number of development goals expected to replace the MDGs, reports the Guardian. The proposed 17 goals cover the broad themes of the MDGs – ending poverty and hunger, and improving health, education and gender equality – but also include specific goals to reduce inequality, make cities safe, address climate change and promote peaceful societies. 'Funding is crucial for credibility on climate and post-2015 efforts'...
'Adaptation to climate change will require the involvement of the people, the deepening of the democratic process, and even the invention of new democratic institutions. Without their active commitment, their knowledge and know-how, it is doomed to fail,' writes Razmig Keucheyan in The Guardian...
The UPS foundation and the World Economic Forum has launched a programme called 'Sağlam Kobi', 'robust small business' to help small and medium-sized enterprises to build resilience and prepare for future natural disasters...
Investing in sustainable land management could help boost political, economic and climatic resilience in poor countries, writes Monique Barbut, executive secretary of the UN convention to combat desertification in The Guardian...
'We cannot establish a direct relation of cause and effect between quakes and volcanic eruptions, even if statistically the former lead to an increase in the latter. All we can say is that Mount Fuji is now in a state of pressure, which means it displays a high potential for eruption. The risk is clearly higher,'said Florent Brenguier, a researcher at the Institute of Earth Sciences...
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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.