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Displaying 2235 of about 2235 resultsThe modular housing, which can be manufactured in a week, captures rainwater and reduces heat gain
By Rina Chandran
The creator of a low-cost house made of bamboo to tackle the chronic shortage of affordable housing in the Philippine capital has won a top international prize to design future cities in a rapidly urbanising world.
Earl Forlales, 23, wo…
By Joop Stoutjesdijk
It is rainy season again in the Philippines, and typhoons and tropical storms are hitting the country again at regular intervals. The worst such event this year so far in Metro Manila occurred the weekend of August 11-12, when Tropical Storm Karding (international name Yagi) brought excessive monsoon rains and submerged large…
A multisectoral forum of scientists, academics, government and civil-society experts are pushing for a new law that provides open access to data that are crucial in responding to disasters.
Dr. Alfredo Mahar Lagmay, a professor at the National Institute of Geological Sciences, University of the Philippines, presented the findings of his study, tit…
Bangkok, 26 February, 2015 - The Manila Call to Action on Climate Change was launched today in the Philippines by UNISDR Champion and Philippines Senator, Loren Legarda, on the occasion of the State visit by French President, Francois Hollande.
Senator Legarda who is Chair of the Senate Committee on Climate Change, read the declaration with the Frenc…
13 October 2015, GENEVA – Eight communities living with the threat of floods, storms, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions were today recognised as Champions of Disaster Risk Reduction by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR).
The head of UNISDR, Margareta Wahlström, said: “Today we mark International Day for Disaster Reduction by highlighti…
MANILA, 9 October 2015 – International Day for Disaster Reduction arrived early today in the Philippines. Globally, the Day is marked next Tuesday on October 13 but the Philippines Senate today took time out to celebrate the Day’s theme of community and local knowledge for disaster risk management.
The Ifugao community in the Philippines today became t…
By Lydia Messling
Ecosystem-based adaptation principles have governed the decision making processes in developing a brand new city on the outskirts of Manila: New Clark City. Without spending billions on large-scale technological fixes or man-made barriers, New Clark City’s greatest defence against natural disasters will instead come from nature itself…
QUEZON CITY -- The Department of Education (DepEd), in partnership with Save the Children Philippines and Prudence Foundation, launched the Rapid Assessment of Damages Report (RADaR) mobile and web applications nationwide last September 22 and 24 to ensure immediate response interventions and learning continuity in the event of disasters and other emerg…
Typhoon Kammuri (or Tisoy) is expected to hit the region Bicol in the Philippines early Tuesday morning. This system currently has sustained core wind speeds of 140km/h and gusts up to 170 km/h. The local governments of Bicol and Samar have started evacuating thousands of people. As part of the Forecast-based Financing (FbF) project,…
By Eloisa Lopez
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Sitio Pariahan, about 17 km (10.5 miles) north of Manila, is sinking about 4 cm (1.5 inches) every year, owing largely to land subsidence from the population's overuse of groundwater, according to experts.
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Now rising sea levels caused by global warming could soon make this village unliveable, a problem faced by other countrie…
Schools were closed for several days as temperatures soared to over 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in April and May. Now they are due to reopen after the holidays in July, rather than August, as authorities rework the education calendar to adapt to extreme weather.The immediate threat comes from storms as typhoon season starts in July. In the past,…
This second edition of Ready for the Dry Years reveals that the severity of two drought events during 2015-2016 and 2018-2020 exceeds anything recorded in the past two decades, since the major El Niño of 1997-1998. Evidence presented in the Report shows that this could be set to continue as the climate warms. The report expands the geographical coverage…
This is an in-depth analysis of the enabling environment for early action in the Philippines.The country is exposed to multiple hazards - at least 60 per cent of the total land area is exposed to multiple hazards, and 74 per cent of the population is vulnerable to impacts. The country is situated on the typhoon belt of the western pacific and located wi…
Forecast-based Action and the use of OpenStreetMap data A huge focus in the humanitarian world over the past months has been on epidemics, in particular the COVID-19 outbreak. As infectious disease modelers and epidemiologists work on forecasting disease outbreaks, not dissimilar to how hydrometeorological hazards are modelled and then used in Fore…
London: The Insurance Development Forum (IDF), a public-private partnership led by the insurance industry and supported by the UN, World Bank and other international organisations, announces today a trilateral partnership with MapAction and Start Network, to accelerate anticipatory action and disaster risk reduction in eight climate-vulnerable countries…