Guardian, the (UK)

'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...

'There must be broad recognition that the people who have contributed the least to climate change are suffering the most through extreme weather, desertification, crop failures, water shortages and newly spreading diseases,' said Professor Alan Miller, chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission...

'It makes sense to prepare a community for a disaster that may never happen, because if you prepare efficiently enough, then indeed it may never happen,' asserts The Guardian...

'In a system where drama, urgency and clear need so often justify requests for funding, it is no surprise that the qualified predictions from early warning systems fail to have the same impact,' writes Save the Children's media manager for humanitarian emergencies...

"In Aceh, after the tsunami, the result wouldn't have been like this, if we still had mangroves," said Daniel Murdiyarso, a scientist with the Indonesia-based Centre for International Forestry Research.

An UK government statement calls for householders at risk of flooding to take responsibility for preventing future damage to their homes despite the fact that this may not reduce the cost of their insurance or even guarantee that they can buy flood cover...