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Displaying 30 of about 789 resultsRIO DE JANEIRO, 21 June 2012 - The UK's Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir John Beddington, used yesterday's UNISDR "Resilient Cities" event at Rio+20 to make an urgent appeal for scientists to use plain language if they are to play a larger role in policymaking on climate change.
"The next fifteen years are really problematic. We'll have a billion more peo…
The 2013-2014 DIPECHO Action Plan for the Caribbean aims to establish greater collaboration and coordination between partners, allowing programming of common outcomes and the harmonization of practices. Furthermore, it focuses on improving communication and dissemination of DRR key contributions in the region, by capturing evidence of success on how DIP…
Also known as 'Resilient Cities 2014,' this Forum is organized by ICLEI– Local Governments for Sustainability and the World Mayors Council on Climate Change, and co-sponsored by UN-HABITAT, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. The…
An EU-backed project is developing a suite of learning materials on the use of social media and crowdsourcing (SMCS) in disasters. The resources will improve European resilience.
For disaster management organisations (DMOs) across Europe, SMCS are playing an increasingly larger role in dealing with crises. However, their effectiveness remains unclear,…
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2:30 - 4:00 p.m. (GMT+2)
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The session Digital Resilience: Technology and tools for local disaster risk reduction is co-organized by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (U…
A new platform which will make access and use of earth observation (EO) data easier for environmental, government, and even business forecasts and operations has been announced by Horizon Europe’s EU-funded innovation consortium EO4EU during their launch on 29-30 June 2022, in Athens, Greece.
At any given time, satellites trained towards the Earth regu…
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The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters –CRED located within the Institute for Health and Society of the University of Louvain in Brussels, has over thirty years of research experience in the field of public health and epidemiology of natural disasters and civil conflicts. It works closely with several UN agencies, the Euro…
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The WHO Collaborating Centre CRED (www.cred.be), located within the School of Public Health of the University of Louvain in Brussels, focuses on research and training for public health and epidemiology of natural disasters and civil conflicts. It works closely with several UN agencies, the European Commission, World Bank and other universiti…
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L’historique, les objectifs et les conditions de fonctionnement de l’AFPCN sont décrits sur son site http://www.afpcn.org.
L’action internationale a été à l’origine de sa création dans la continuation du comité français de la Décennie de la prévention des catastrophes naturelles des Nations unies devenue ISDR. L’activité de l’AFPCN répond au b…
Purpose of position:
- To provide a broad range of administrative support to the Director for Humanitarian Planning and HEA Strategy Team within the HEA and the Partnership Office.
- To provide administrative support to the Director of Disaster Risk Reduction with specific focus on coordination of the Community Resilience Community of Practice.
Major…
Duties and responsibilities
Under the general supervision of the Director, NRC, and the direct supervision of the Senior Officer, Co-ordinator of the Climate Change Team, will contribute to the division’s work on climate change, impact assessments and environmental monitoring.
In particular will:
- perform data analyses, such as spatial interpolatio…
Duties and responsibilities
Under the supervision of the Director, Climate and Water Department, the incumbent will perform the following duties:
- Provide coordinated technical management and maintenance of various public websites under the responsibility of the Climate and Water (CLW) Department: the general CLW website with special emphasis on the…
Background
The objective of this Convention is to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought in countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification around the world, particularly in Africa, through effective action at all levels, supported by international cooperation and partnership arrangements, in the framework of an integr…
Purpose:
To encourage the sharing of knowledge and exchange of experience between technicians and cities network members, and to promote reflection on the events, solutions, resources and mitigation measures that can improve the combat against natural and manmade disasters associated with the functions of Civil Protection.
Beyond the technical compone…
UNISDR and WMO started in May 2012 the joint implementation of the project 'Building resilience to disasters in the Western Balkans and Turkey'. The project is supported by the European Commission DG Enlargement through the Instrument for Pre-Accession (IPA). The beneficiaries are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of…