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'The pope's time in the Philippines, one of the world's most disaster-prone countries, will encourage us all to reflect on how we can seize the opportunity to make 2015 the year of resilience by reaching historic agreements on new measures to reduce the impact of disasters, climate change and to adopt a new set of sustainable development goals,' according to Margareta Wahlström...
'Feeding food to animals and then eating the animals is kind of like heating your house during the winter by burning wood outside,' writes Moby in his opinion piece. While 15 pounds of grain is needed to make one pound of beef, 13 pounds of grain fed to humans directly can feed 13...
In her article for the Huffington Post, Pia Treichel, Program Manager for Climate Change Adaptation at Plan International Australia, describes through multiple examples the real and urgent threat climate change presents to vulnerable children and the communities they live in...
'The protection of ecosystems can bring multiple benefits. As well as mitigating global issues such as climate change, nature reduces the impact an extreme event would otherwise have, and can support local sustainable livelihoods for the poor; which is key to coping with disaster'...
'Vegetables adapt to and combat climate change and are less affected by extreme weather than crops because they have shorter growing times. Additionally, vegetable growers are protecting future plant biodiversity by creating seed banks and seed exchanges that preserve important food crops,' according to Danielle Nierenberg, President of Food Tank...
The Hyogo Framework for Action's goal is to reduce disaster losses by 2015 through new and improved resiliency efforts, such as better monitoring, risk analysis, and technological improvements in identifying extreme events-hurricanes, earthquakes, landslides, floods, and the like...
'We can avoid reaching crisis scenarios where individuals are left on their own by building resilient societies and communities. It does not have to come down to survival by live instinct, we can prepare and face disaster together,' writes Michael Møller, Acting Director General of United Nations Office at Geneva...
Yesterday's 6.7 magnitude earthquake led to the evacuation of over 100,000 people as a precautionary measure. Only minor damage was reported but Chile’s navy said there had been a possibility of a minor tsunami between the northern towns of Arica and Tocopilla, so authorities urged people to evacuate a stretch of coast...
Voluntary Commitments
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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.