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United Nations agencies are mobilizing to provide longer-term recovery aid to a raft of countries in Asia and the Pacific, where a relentless barrage of tropical storms, earthquakes and tsunamis have hit millions of people in recent days...
18 countries around the Indian Ocean Rim will participate in an ocean-wide tsunami exercise on 14 October to coincide with World Disaster Reduction Day. The exercise will for the first time test and evaluate the effectiveness of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (IOTWS)...
'All development now will have to factor in how to adapt to the changing climate by erecting homes away from flood zones and hurricane-proofing buildings, among other measures' said Lucy Stone, Climate Change Project Manager for UNICEF...
Stressing that adaptation to the impact of climate change is an 'essential investment in our common future,' UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged countries rich and poor to take practical steps to deal with the impact of global warming...
About 5,000 new automatic weather stations are set to be deployed across Africa, under a climate change initiative announced today by the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the Global Humanitarian Forum, the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and mobile telecommunications companies Ericsson and Zain...
A new report recommends that all countries include migration and adaptation to climate change strategies in future planning. Follow this issue at the Global Platform next week...
'Climate change is making less water available in many regions as glaciers recede, rainfall becomes less predictable, and floods and droughts become more extreme. Managing water carefully and balancing the varied needs for it is vital' said Ban Ki-moon...
The number of people killed in natural disasters spiked in 2008, with most of the lives claimed by Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar and the Sichuan earthquake in China, according to figures released by the UN...
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