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Hundreds of people have gathered at a United Nations-backed meeting in Addis Ababa to identify actions that will promote sustainable development in Africa in the face of climate change...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed that most of 'natural' disasters are man-made. 'That means that we, the international community, have the power to do something about them,' he declared during an international high-level meeting on security in Sochi, Russia...
The United Nations initiative to bolster cities' resilience against natural hazards was unveiled in Kuwait today, with a senior world body official voicing hope that Arab cities will sign on to the scheme...
Three Pacific Ocean countries today appealed to United Nations Member States to act fast to combat climate change and start mobilizing the resources needed to mitigate the effects of global warming, especially in small island developing States that are particularly vulnerable to rising sea levels...
In a bid to reduce local communities' vulnerability to climate change, the pilot project, jointly implemented by UNEP and UNDP, with funding from the Danish Foreign Ministry, has mapped and developed a comprehensive plan for land sustainability and use...
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Gap Task Force report was launched today by the United Nations Secretary-General. It includes some important references and recommendations on disaster risk reduction...
Thousands of Indonesian schools and hospitals have signed up to a United Nations campaign to encourage authorities to better protect such structures in vulnerable areas from the impact of future natural disasters...
The UNESCO Director-General points out the need for expertise and protection of cultural and natural sites inscribed on the UN World Heritage List at risk from threats ranging from climate change to urbanization, recalling recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, floods in Poland, fires in Uganda and landslides in Peru...
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