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Displaying 7 of about 7 resultsPakistan would like to 'build back better' but will need international assistance, a top official stated in Bangkok this week.
"we would certainly hope that international community would... come up up with the requisite resource level required to help those people who have been deeply affected," said Pakistan's Ambassador to Thailand, Sohail Mahmood on…
From 13-26 June 2010, 30-40 young scholars will be convened to the Institute for an the 'Climate change and its impacts: resilience and adaptation to changes in precipitation' to take place at Brown University.
This Institute will focus on changes in the amount and variability of precipitation that will occur globally in coming decades. Major themes…
This DRR Tool Kit for Constituent Assembly members is produced jointly by the following organizations, with funding support of the European Commission Humanitarian Aid department (through DIPECHO V partners–ActionAid with AusAID co-finance, Care Nepal, Handicap International, Mercy Corps, Practical Action and UNDP–BPCR South and South–West Asia), Oxfam…
Dumaguete City - The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council is set to visit towns and cities here for an ocular inspection of hazard-prone areas across the province.
The inspection is in line with the council's provincial disaster risk reduction management plan which is expected to be completed by the end of this month, said Provincial P…
This report explores a set of risks that share a potential for wider systemic impact and are strongly linked to a number of significant, long-term trends. Those include: (i) economic risks; (ii) geopolitical risks; (iii) environmental risks, from extreme weather, drought, cyclone, earthquake, flood, to pollution and biodiversity loss; (iv) societal risk…
Press release No. 2011/031/LAC
San Salvador - Heads of State and top officials from the Central American Integration System (SICA) and World Bank Group (WBG) President, Robert B. Zoellick, agreed today to join efforts towards regional cooperation and integration and adopted a comprehensive agenda that includes an action plan with more than 20 specifi…
Hanoi - Serious efforts are under way to respond to the impact of climate change in Vietnam but a lack of capacity and resources remains a challenge, experts say.
Vietnam has been identified as one of 12 countries at highest risk from climate change and is the most threatened by rising sea levels, according to World Bank studies.
UN-cited data on gl…