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With earthquakes, heat waves, floods and snowstorms affecting 208 million people, killing nearly 300,000, and costing $110 billion in losses last year alone, the General Assembly debated mitigation steps such as building safer schools, hospitals and cities to reduce the terrible toll...
On the eve of the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake that killed 220,000 Haitians and made 1.5 million others homeless, the United Nations today looked back at a year of achievements, albeit at times spotty, and forward to the enormous challenges still ahead...
'National meteorological services in Europe did well to issue warnings, but being prepared goes beyond prediction,' said the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction. 'A complete and effective early warning system also requires planners to understand the risks they face, so that they are able to respond appropriately'...
Committing funds to climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies in developing countries will lead to a safer, healthier and prosperous world for all, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told delegates at the United Nations climate change conference in Cancún today, urging them to find ways of raising the required resources...
'Thanks to this Expo, millions of people learned about possibilities for making our cities healthier and safer – cities that better integrate nature and technology, cities that offer their citizens cleaner air and water, and better lives all around' stated Ban Ki-moon at the Expo's Summit Forum.
50 countries across Asia and the Pacific agreed at the fourth Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Incheon, Republic of Korea, to make risk reduction a component of their national climate change adaptation policies to cope with extreme weather events...
With the world's cities never having been so at risk of disruption by disasters as they are now, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today underscored the need for wide participation in bolstering the resilience of urban areas to hazards...
Today, on the International Day for Disaster Reduction, we recognize what local governments and communities are doing to protect themselves while building more sustainable towns and cities...
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