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Disasters and shocks — natural or manmade — have the potential to throw poor and marginal populations into crisis and wipe away hard-earned development gains. These disasters and shocks are occurring with greater frequency and intensity, making it difficult to build resilient communities, particularly in countries facing severe socio-economic challenges exacerbated by the effects of climate change...
The competition will support innovative resilience projects at the local level while encouraging communities to adopt policy changes and activities that plan for the impacts of extreme weather and climate change and rebuild affected areas to be better prepared for the future. As last month’s National Climate Assessment made clear, climate change is no longer a distant threat...
This report summarizes the impacts of climate change on the United States, now and in the future.
The Obama Administration is today launching the Climate Data Initiative—a broad effort to leverage the Federal Government’s extensive, freely-available climate-relevant data resources to stimulate innovation and private-sector entrepreneurship in support of national climate-change preparedness...
This Memorandum of Understanding between Russian Federation and United States of America provides for the cooperation in emergency preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation of natural and man-made technological disasters not occurring within
This memorandum of understanding provides for the possibility of mutual assistance among the jurisdictions of Canada and United States entering into this agreement in managing any emergency or disaster when the affected jurisdiction or jurisdictio
This protocol of intentions between United States and Philippines provides for cooperation in disaster prevention and management; emergency preparedness and response training; exchange of information and scientific and technical cooperation.
This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in United States, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as flood, earthquake, cyclone, tsunami, tornado and volcano.
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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.
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