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The agreement involves the World Bank hiring several global and local consultants to evaluate Beirut’s infrastructure and ability to handle natural disasters – with a focus on earthquakes, reports the Daily Star. The President of the Municipal Council of Beirut said that the agreement will 'make Beirut a city that’s resilient against natural disasters and especially earthquakes.'...
Lebanon faces multiple climate change related hazards. Assaad W. Razzouk, clean energy entrepreneur, investor and commentator lists sea level rise, severe droughts, water stress and crop yield degradation, the problem of climate refugees and the strains on human health in his opinion piece...
'Harsh and severe climate phenomena occur in Lebanon – for example we can witness either a heavy rain season or a long period of drought, which means we must place high and urgent importance on the issue of managing water in Lebanon,' said Environment Minister Nazem Khoury...
Talking at the national conference on disaster risk reduction in Lebanon, United Nations Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction Margareta Wahlström stated that 'two projects, a national disaster response strategy and a data collection program, already in motion, can lay the ground work for preparing for those disasters'...
Prime Minister Najib Mikati of Lebanon calls for a national framework to bring together the efforts of some 257 municipalities across the country to raise awareness of disaster management, Lebanon’s vulnerability to earthquakes and other environmental disasters...
'We know that not only the country but the entire region is going to witness major earthquakes soon, because the cycle of earthquakes on the major fault line that passes through this country, is now active,' warns a geology professor at the American University of Beirut. Already municipalities are mapping and assessing earthquake, forest fire, tsunami, flood and landslide hazards...
Margareta Wahlstrom, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, told The Daily Star that there is a lack of public awareness and knowledge on the correct procedures following a major disaster...
'The cost of disasters is rising and the risk of economic loss and damage is increasing across the globe' said Bina Disai, programme officer at the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction during the Beirut launch of the Global Assessment Report 2011. 'This, unfortunately, is also the case for the MENA region.'...
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