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Anthony Haines, CEO of Toronto Hydro said that 'We've been cognizant of climate change for a long time at Toronto Hydro.' Mr Haines added that Toronto Hydro has been pruning back trees more aggressively in recent years and has been using more durable cables as a preparation for an increasingly volatile weather...
'Now is the time to significantly shift the balance of climate finance - which helps poor countries adapt - and aid finance, from relief to prevention. Disaster risk reduction must be embedded into all aid programmes.
Mark Goldring recalls that the 'tremendous need to do better and support communities own relief and recovery efforts, and... to invest much more in disaster risk reduction and preparedness' was already highlighted in the main evaluation of the Indian Ocean tsunami...
'There is a desperate need for research into how humanitarian crises affect people with disabilities. The research needs to take into account that people with disabilities can possess multiple identities: some are women, some are children, some are indigenous and so on. A crisis can affect them in different ways', stats Hanna Wanja Maina of Young Voices...
Success of disaster risk reduction 'depends heavily on how well disaster risk is understood. City planners, for instance, play important roles through risk-based territorial planning, enforcement of building standards, early warning systems, and emergency response plans,' writes Francis Ghesquiere, head of the GFDRR Secretariat on the pages of his Huffingtonpost blog...
'With the frequency and severity of natural disasters likely to increase, managing their risks should no longer be seen as a humanitarian endeavor, but rather as a development one. Sitting on the sidelines while countries like Haiti are prevented from developing their potential by recurring natural disasters is not an option,' write Justine Greening and Helen Clark in their blog entry in the Huffington Post...
Numerous complex risks, such as climate change, environmental degradation, population growth, conflict, and food price volatility, are making the lives of vulnerable communities more difficult. The poor should be enabled to adapt to change and build robust, adaptable and richer livelihoods...
A Department of Building Inspection special report published in the San Francisco Public Press lists about 3,000 seismically unfit buildings in the city - homes of 58,000 people. The 'soft-story' buildings on the list have weak ground floors, thus, they may be similar to those that suffered the most damage in the 1989 earthquake in the region...
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