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The UK's Environment Agency is expecting significantly higher risk of flooding for the autumn and winter months. The warning comes a few months after the government has announced its proposal to cut financial support for some flood defences...
'Hurricane Sandy cannot be attributed to climate change, but warming does mean there is more moisture in the atmosphere,' concludes Chris Mooney for the Guardian. Scientists are uncertain whether hurricane Sandy is related to climate change...
'Last year, when we had one of the severest droughts in about 60 years, we found one of the reasons it was so bad was that people have been unable to recover from previous droughts,' said Beatrice Teya, who heads the UN Development Programme's (UNDP) disaster risk reduction and recovery team...
In the looming food crisis that is due to drought in the US and Russia, scientists are urging to adopt a vegetarian diet in order to save water to grow more food in an increasingly climate-erratic world. Five to 10 times more water is needed to produce animal protein-rich food, than for a vegetarian diet. 'One third of the world's arable land is used to grow crops to feed animals'...
‘You learn about how to understand an atmosphere by seeing different atmospheres, and the more we know about Mars' atmosphere, the better we can really understand our own,’ said Mark Lemmon, a planetary scientist from Texas A&M University who is part of Curiosity's climate team...
'While Pakistan has set up the DRR governance system, it needs greater funding, political support and co-ordination to work more effectively,' said a new report. 'More durable forms of DRR, such as mitigation and prevention, need more attention'...
The Guardian analyzes the finding of ALNAP's State of the Humanitarian System 2012, highlighting that indeed, disaster-risk reduction-related investments amount to only 1% of the $150bn spent in 20 countries that received the most humanitarian aid in the past five years...
'Rio+20 is the opportunity for us to pull forces together and call for change. Governments were never so much in need of suggestions and advice on how to navigate past the 2015 milepost,' writes Kelly Hawrylshyn, Plan UK's disaster risk reduction and resilience adviser in the pages of The Guardian...
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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.