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Warsaw - Helping smallholder farmers adapt to changing climate conditions and lower their risks will be crucial to ensuring food security in the future - and could pay for itself, argues a new report looking at the cost-effectiveness of adaptation.
Putting a financial value on the benefits of adaptation – from more weather-resilient…
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Warsaw - Overshadowed by the ongoing human catastrophe in the Philippines, Germanwatch presented the 9th annual Global Climate Risk Index at the onset of the Climate Summit in Warsaw. “The index shows that the most severe weather related catastrophes in 2012 occurred in Haiti, Philippines and Pakistan”, says Sönke Kreft, Team Leader Inte…
One year after Hurricane Sandy devastated parts of the U.S. East Coast, the government is spending billions to replenish beaches that will only be swallowed again by rising seas and future storms. It’s time to develop coastal policies that take into account new climate realities.
By Rob Young
Since Hurricane Sandy hit the U.S. East Coast a year ago, f…
En el marco de las celebraciones por el Día Internacional para la Reducción de Desastres, el Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD) en alianza con el Centro al Servicio de la Acción Popular (CESAP), organizaron el foro “Discapacidad y Desastres: una Conversación no tan obvia” que se realizó el día 22 de octubre de 2013 en la sede de CESAP…
Peru's President Ollanta Humala launched the program "Machines for Development" aimed at executing disaster prevention and mitigation actions across all regions of the country facing risk posed by potential natural calamities.
"The program will allow the government developing a better coordination with municipalities for any eventuality, thus supportin…
Por lo general, cuando se trata el tema de la globalización, se hace referencia al papel del estado y a la capacidad de control y de adecuación de los gobiernos (a lo interno), de un proceso que va más allá de las fronteras geográficas y políticas, y que tiene implicaciones sobre las actividades económicas, políticas y sociales.
En la década de los 80…
In 2013, InterAction, in alliance with FedEx, launched "The FedEx Award for Innovations in Disaster Preparedness" to recognize an innovative intervention that reduces communities’ vulnerability to hazards or natural disasters and increases their capacity to prevent or cope with such adverse events. Through this award, InterAction and FedEx aim to promot…
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A partir de enero del presente año, Costa Rica asumió la presidencia Pro-Témpore del Centro de Coordinación para la Prevención de los Desastres Naturales en América Central (CEPREDENAC) por un período de un año, de conformidad con el Convenio Consultivo de esta organización, el cual fue ratificado por la Asamblea Legislativa mediante la…
Port-au-Prince – The international children’s organization Plan International has announced that it is shifting the focus of its work in the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti to a recovering and rebuilding mode after a prolonged period of emergency response.
“The road to recovery will be a long one but Plan International is here for the long haul.…