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The UN General Assembly adopted a consensus on Friday requesting the United Nations to increase support for strengthening the Caribbean nation's disaster-preparedness capacity and integrating disaster risk reduction into its development strategies and programmes...
The UN Secretary-General asserts that we have the knowledge and technologies to mitigate disaster. 'The problem is that so many parts of the world are not benefiting from this...Disaster risk reduction measures must not be a luxury that only some States can afford.'...
The UN reports that the Government has now asked that priority be given to risk reduction by supporting the reconstruction of seismically-resistant houses in the region...
John Holmes, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, called for countries to provide funding for adaptation, with a large proportion of those resources being earmarked for disaster risk reduction...
Among those keeping a close eye on the outcome of next month’s climate summit in Copenhagen is the head of UNISDR, who has seen first-hand the devastation wrought by increasingly frequent and severe natural disasters aggravated by climate change...
In some areas, women provide up to 80 per cent of agricultural labour, a task that will be made more difficult with the onset of inconsistent rainfall and fluctuating temperatures since they will have less resources and capacity to adapt...
Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are all prone to a variety of disasters triggered by natural hazards, according to the UNISDR, which maintains an office in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe...
Hospitals, clinics and other health services for thousands of Indonesians need urgent aid after two earthquakes ravaged west Sumatra in September, with the goal of enabling them to better withstand future emergencies, said the United Nations health agency...
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