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Displaying 15 of about 66 resultsGENEVA, 31 October 2012 - UNISDR Chief Margareta Wahlstrom spoke to the opening session of this week's extraordinary session of the World Meteorological Congress which is discussing the implementation plan and governance model for the Global Framework for Climate Services.
Ms. Wahlstrom congratulated the World Meteorological Organization on the initiat…
While the current alerting system is already effective in mitigating these effects, researchers found that moving further towards an impact-based alert system which focuses on the repercussions of extreme weather conditions could enable participants, including the NHS and local government, to make more informed decisions.
In practice, this would mean p…
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the current alerting systems for hot and cold weather used in England to notify the health and social care sector of upcoming extreme weather events. It considers the views of stakeholders on the current system and explore their perspectives on the proposal to move towards an impact-based system.
The pape…
This manual is the first concrete step in education designed for the entire population, and was created in order to enable citizens to easily access basic information useful for behavior in emergency situations. It is simple and provides basic guidelines and rules of conduct in any type of danger. It lists numerous examples of conduct in emergency situa…
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O Canal Lisboa é um meio de informação e divulgação, propriedade do Turismo de Lisboa, com o apoio da Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, que visa informar os habitantes e os visitantes da cidade sobre temas de interesse geral, municipal, cultural e turístico. Através de uma rede alargada de 18 vídeo painéis, proporciona uma ampla cobertura das…
Heart attack, or myocardial infarction, is the number one cause of death worldwide. A study published in the European Heart Journal by scientists at Helmholtz Zentrum München and colleagues from a range of other Bavarian institutions shows that the risk of suffering a heat-induced heart attack has increased significantly in recent years. During the same…
As Britain’s register for vulnerable energy customers exceeds 6 million customers in need for the first time, Energy Networks Association (ENA) today announced the launch of its Winter Resilience Committee.
The number of customers enrolled in the Priority Services Register run by energy network companies, has rocketed to more than six million people, m…
Temperature fluctuations that are amplified by climate change will hit the world’s poorest countries hardest, new research suggests.
For every degree of global warming, the study suggests temperature variability will increase by up to 15% in southern Africa and Amazonia, and up to 10% in the Sahel, India and South East Asia.
Meanwhile, countries outsi…
Press release:
Geneva – The World Meteorological Organization’s Annual Statement on the Status of the Global Climate said that 2011 was the 11th warmest since records began in 1850. It confirmed preliminary findings that 2011 was the warmest year on record with a La Niña, which has a cooling influence. Globally-averaged temperatures in 2011 were estima…
Kristalina Georgieva, the EU Commissioner for crisis response visited the flood-affected areas in Bulgaria together with an expert from the European Commission’s Monitoring and Information Centre (MIC) specialised in flooding and civil protection in extremely cold conditions. She stressed on the need to plan and prepare for the effects of snow melting a…
Government and State agencies are better prepared than ever before to respond to extreme weather events should they occur this winter, Minister for Defence Simon Coveney has said, according to the Irish Times.
“Government is and has to continue having conversations around the state of preparedness for climate change considerations and adaptation strate…
By Simon Lee
The UK, along with large parts of northern Europe, is in the grip of an unusually cold period of weather thanks to a flow of cold easterly winds from Siberia. On the morning of February 11, the village of Braemar in the Scottish Highlands recorded -23.0°C, the UK’s coldest temperature since 1995 and coldest February temperature since the 1…
Vacancy number: ISDR/C/12/2010
Background
The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) is a multi-disciplinary and multistakeholder platform to enable societies to increase their resilience to natural, technological and environmental disasters and to reduce associated environmental, human and economic and social risk and losses. A range of…
GENEVA, 23 July 2018 – The soaring rise in economic losses from extreme weather events fueled by climate change will be the focus of this year’s International Day for Disaster Reduction on October 13.
The Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mami Mizutori, said today: “Economic losses from disasters in low and middle-…
This book was produced to mark the end of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), a United Nations initiative to reduce the negative effects of natural disasters.
This volume communicates solutions to the problems associated with natural disasters, stimulating discussion and improvements in methods of protecting people and prop…