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Harvey Siggs welcomed the new Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction noting that 'Disasters know no borders. We need to think local and act global. We also need to now think about what this new framework means for us in Europe,' reports InsuranceNewsNet.com...
'Although there are uncertainties about future climate change, failure to invest in adaptation may leave communities and nations poorly prepared, thus increasing the probability of severe adverse consequences' said Dr. Kristie L. Ebi of the Carnegie Institution for Science...
'With more people choosing to live in the wildland/urban interface, more residential properties are exposed to the threat of wildfires. Indeed families across Canada that are vulnerable to natural hazards, can prepare now for perils that will inevitably strike in the future' said Paul Kovacs, ICLR...
The company has recently expanded its research campus and now has an earthquake table, wind lab and flood lab, allowing researchers to model how natural hazards impact buildings and their contents, and what can be done to help prevent losses from happening in the first place...
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