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Displaying 11 of about 11 resultsThis Commission staff working document is the second edition of an overview of the natural and man-made disaster risks that the EU may face, prepared under EU legislation on civil protection. The aim of the overview is to capture the trends in the ever-evolving disaster risk landscape, discuss the major drivers shaping it, take a closer look at 12 selec…
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…
This study finds that 17 million people were newly displaced by sudden-onset disasters worldwide in 2009, and over 42 million people in 2010. To meet this challenge, the study recommends that greater collaboration is required between those working in the fields of humanitarian action, disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and development. I…
This UNU-EHS InterSections underlines the need to access the topic of early warning from different viewpoints as a way to provide policy relevant advice concerning early warning systems to Member States, and to contribute to the efforts of the United Nations in addressing international cooperation and development of generally applicable standards. This…
This report explains that disaster events are only the tip of the iceberg, by highlighting how these events are interconnected with each other, with other larger processes, as well as with our action or inaction. They can lead to future disasters or will worsen existing problems such as biodiversity loss or poverty. The world is becoming ever-more inter…
This policy brief addresses how climate change is threatening the overall progress made in reducing the global burden of diseases and injuries. Climate change has a serious impact on human lives and health. It threatens the basic elements we all need for good health and will undermine decades of progress in global health. In this paper, several pathways…
The Lancet, 2015, dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60854-6
This report by the 2015 Lancet Commission maps out the impacts of climate change by examining the latest health data, and suggests the necessary policy responses in order to ensure the highest attainable standards of health for populations worldwide.
The report shows that the direct health imp…
The United Nations General Assembly has designated October 13th as the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction to promote a global culture of disaster risk reduction. It is an opportunity to acknowledge the progress being made toward reducing disaster risk and losses in lives, livelihoods and health in…
This document presents a South-East Asia specific disaster risk reduction framework that provides more specific guidance to National Societies in acknowledgement of the Framework for Community Safety and Resilience and global guidance, which outlines the Red Cross Red Crescent approach to disaster risk reduction and guides National Society contributions…
A framework in which the Indian government has laid out an action plan for reducing the country's vulnerability to potential hazards that are relevant to India, including: environmental disasters such as earthquake, landslide, flood, drought, cyclone, cold wave, heat wave, chemical disaster, fire, epidemic or pest attack; technological and sectoral disa…
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…