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'Whether it is for tsunamis, drought, hunger, floods, there is need for early warnings to prepare people, something only possible with sound information and environmental policies,' said Juliana Rotich at the Eye on Earth Summit in Abu Dhabi...
SciDevNet reports on the sidelining of two key issues for developing countries at the end of COP17, outlining their importance and history: the Green Climate Fund and how to facilitate technology transfer...
'The pilot project had shown that adaptation to climate change was everyone's business, and that there was an important role for communities and community-based approaches in adapting to climate change that could not be easily addressed through national-level strategies'...
The Forensic Investigations of Disaster (FORIN) methodology, aims 'to answer the question of why, when there is so much science related to hazards and risk, do [disaster] losses continue to rise,' said Jane Rovins, executive director of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR)...
'Strengthening health infrastructure and educating communities in vulnerable areas are the key tools,' said Aditya Prasad Dash, regional advisor for vector-borne and neglected tropical diseases at the WHO's regional office for South-East Asia (SEARO).
Flood-prone Bangladesh and the Netherlands are planning to exchange research findings and share experience on managing floods, which are projected to worsen because of climate change, reports SciDevNet...
A new satellite data centre in Namibia will help farmers prepare for droughts, floods, bushfires and pests, reports SciDevNet. 'We can predict where problems are popping up' said said Marina Coetzee, a researcher at EOSA-RTC and a senior lecturer at the polytechnic...
'Disasters, as well as subsequent relief and recovery activities, have significant impacts on agro-biodiversity, including diversity of crops and their varieties that may exist in a farming system,' a researcher at the Nairobi-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture and new study's lead author, told SciDevNet...
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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.