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Displaying 105 of about 297 resultsDurban- The State of Qatar and the Republic of Korea have agreed to closely cooperate to make the next major UN Climate Change Conference at the end of 2012 a success.
The 2012 UN Climate Change Conference, COP 18/CMP 8 (the 18th Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC, plus the 8th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Par…
The three leaders, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, agreed on the importance of sharing information on projects, initiatives, good practices, lessons learned and science and technologies to strengthen disaster management capability, according to a joint statement issued at the trilat…
Scholars and experts from United States, Korea, Japan and Taiwan gathered this week in Tainan, Taiwan, for a the 'Advanced Training Workshop on Southeast Asia Regional Health Impacts and Adaptation under Climate Change' to discuss environmental and health issues resulting from climate change.
"Although there are uncertainties about future climate chang…
While Korea is expecting one or two more typhoons by the end of autumn, the Seoul Metropolitan Government announced its '2011 Storm and Flood Preparedness Plan' to help prevent further damages, reports Arirang in an interview.
"Typhoons in autumn are more severe than in summer, so meticulous preparations are crucial. (...) If this regulation is well-fo…
The South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo reports on the challenges ahead for the National Emergency Management Agency to implement the disaster prevention act implemented in 1998, pledging to reduce damage from natural hazards. The paper cites delays and budget issues as one of the biggest hurdles facing its disaster risk reduction efforts.
The land ministry said Monday it put out an urgent bid to carry out research to establish new seismic design guidelines for airports and seaport facilities, one of the government's followup measures to an earthquake that rocked country's southeast last week.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport will accept applications until Nov. 27 for s…
PWS-17; WMO/TD No. 1409:
This document presents some examples of how to effectively communicate weather information across a range of services delivery methods and information types. Examples include graphical presentations on the Internet and television, good use of icons and other weather symbols, and a case of effective verbal communication on radio…
This report addresses biosphere reserves and their ability to take up important challenges, such as loss of biodiversity, climate change, tourism and natural disaster prevention. It contains 28 case studies drawn from an international survey and good practices from UNESCO biosphere reserves in Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, USA, Ethiopia, Ken…
These reports provide observations, projections and impacts of climate change on 23 countries. These provide up to date science on how the climate has already changed and the potential consequences of future changes. They complement those published by the IPCC as well as the more detailed climate change and impact studies published nationally. It is sta…
GIST (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, President Kiseon Kim) School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering Professor Jin-Ho Yoon's research team confirmed that three typhoons, which caused much damage to the Korean Peninsula in the summer of 2020, affected forest fires in the western U.S. state of Oregon by changing jet streams with…
This user-friendly handbook provides an overview of several 'natural' disasters that occurred in the world in 2005, and contains good practices submitted by ADRC member countries to share knowledge among relevant stakeholders in order to contribute to global disaster risk reduction, in regard to the progression on the implementation of the Hyogo Framewo…
This book is the result of a two-year study of domestic institutional processes in Asia to address climate change issues, national circumstances that impede countries from fully participating in the international debate and elements of a plausible climate regime from an Asian perspective. It serves to identify the institutional dimensions of climate cha…
The government of the Republic of Korea has announced the move of its National Disaster Management Institute (NDMI) to the city of Ulsan, where the NDMI aims to focus on innovative and comprehensive disaster risk management.
Mr. Park In-yong, Korea’s Minister of Public Safety and Security stressed at the opening ceremony that "in order to achieve NDMI’…
According to officials in a report from Korea Joongang Daily, residents of a luxury residential complex by the sea in Busan apparently opposed government plans to build a higher breakwater - possibly leading to major property damage inflicted by a deadly typhoon. They said the sea view was more important than their own safety.
Typhoon Chaba landed in B…
Kyodo News reports that Japan, China and South Korea are not letting their political disagreements get in the way of cooperation in the area of disaster management. The sentiment was expressed at a forum on the resilience of Northeast Asia during disasters as part of the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction.
According to the article, tr…