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Displaying 30 of about 297 resultsThe ADPC Regional Consultative Committee on Disaster Management has been established since 2000. The Committee comprises members of the ADPC Board of Trustees/Advisory Council who are heads of national disaster management systems of countries of the Asian region. The role of the consultative committee is to provide an informal consultative mechanism for…
The Joint Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM) of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), meets in Yeosu, Republic of Korea, to consider progress and
priorities in strengthening our understanding of oceans through collective action. The session coincides with Expo 2…
According to the UNESCAP in 2011, Asia is the world’s most vulnerable to natural disasters, with its people four times more likely to be affected by nature’s wrath than those in Africa, and 25 times more likely than those in Europe or North America.
To ensure effective and sustainable progress on development and growth targets, local or urban centres m…
The Twelfth East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction (EASEC-12) will be held on 26 - 28 January 2011 in Hong Kong.
The conference will be hosted by the Department of Building and Construction, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. EASEC was founded by Professor Fumio Nishino, and the first conference was held in Ban…
This guidance document presents the local government's response to COVID-19 in Korea. The measures taken are categorised under the following themes:
Innovative public health administration (pp. 2-4);
Support and management of self-quarantine (pp. 5-7);
Local economic recovery (pp. 8-10);
Transparent disclosure of information (p. 11).
For more co…
This fourth edition of explaining extreme events of the previous year (2014) from a climate perspective is the most extensive yet with 33 different research groups exploring the causes of 29 different events that occurred in 2014. A number of this year’s studies indicate that human-caused climate change greatly increased the likelihood and intensity for…
This BAMS special report presents assessments of how human-caused climate change may have affected the strength and likelihood of individual extreme events in 2018.
This report presents the results of a workshop focusing on the high seismic risk in the northeast Asia region and offering scientists and engineers from various countries the opportunity to discuss regional approaches to improve collaboration in earthquake data exchange and analysis. It responds to the need to mobilize scientific knowledge and technolog…
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This document reports on the conference convened in Jeju, Republic of Korea, on 3-6 December 2008, aimed at discussing and exchanging information and experiences on the following issues: (i) awareness of the impacts of climate change in island and coastal ecosystems; (ii) climate change research, adaptation and mitigation, and the use of…
This report presents country’s disaster risks and natural hazards, such as cyclone, storm and landslide, and describes governmental and institutional structures responsible for disaster management in Korea.
The report discusses major activities and accomplishments in disaster reduction during the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDN…
By Ed King
South Korea will set aside US$40 million to ensure developing countries have the capacity to use the UN-backed Green Climate Fund.
Kyung-Ho Choo, South Korea’s vice minister of strategy and finance, made the announcement at UN long-term finance talks that started today in Incheon.
Ensuring developing countries can access the GCF is viewed…
Bangkok - The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), today launched in to service a Regional Cooperative Mechanism on Drought Monitoring and Early Warning in Nanjing, China.
The Mechanism provides satellite products for general drought monitoring and higher resolution products for identified high drought risk ar…
ICLEI Media advisory: Resilient Cities 2011 – 2nd world congress on adaptation and climate change, 3-5 June 2011, Bonn, Germany
Back to back with the UN Climate Talks ahead of COP17 in Bonn, the Mayor of Mexico City and the Mayor of Bonn will gather their peers, confirming their commitment to globally coordinated local climate action. Mayors and Govern…
South Korea and Democratic People's Republic of Korea are expected to meet after a warning from experts that a possible volcanic eruption at Mount Baekdu, located on the DPRK border with China, may create huge disruption, similar to the Icelandic volcanic eruption in 2010, reports Xinhua. The talks will be held from May 11-13 in Seoul or Pyongyang, acco…
By Ma. Cristina Arayata
The Korean government, through the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), and the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) inaugurated on Friday the Pasig-Marikina-Tullahan River Basin Flood Forecasting and Warning Center in Quezon City.
The center marks the completion of KO…