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Displaying 15 of about 33 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…
Background
The aim of the conference is to offer a forum for disaster management communities and experts to strengthen their capabilities in using space based information to assess, monitor and respond to climate change related disaster risks and integrate space technology into long-term disaster risk reduction efforts. Increased storms and floods in t…
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…
Press Release No. 966
Geneva/Doha - The years 2001–2011 were all among the warmest on record, and, according to the World Meteorological Organization, the first ten months indicate that 2012 will most likely be no exception despite the cooling influence of La Niña early in the year.
WMO’s provisional annual statement on the state of the global climat…
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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…
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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…
This meeting will deal with all aspects related to the effects of climate on agricultural production and on the environment.
Themes
• Climate change
• risk identification and assessment
• social impacts
• resilience
• water
• hazards (droughts, floods, heat waves, frost)
• vulnerability and adaptation
Background
DRM Issues in Mongolia
Mongolia is characterized by its harsh climate, with extreme weather events that can cause significant loss of household assets and leave much of the population highly vulnerable. Both rural and urban populations are at risk, as has been demonstrated in recent years.
Rural Risks: Given the dependence of rural econom…
Le projet CHEDAR étudie la capacité des modèles numériques à simuler les épisodes météorologiques remarquables (vagues de chaleur ou de froid, impact des éruptions volcaniques…) des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, avant la création des réseaux météorologiques. Les chercheurs ont pour ce faire collecté et numérisé les données climatiques observées en France dura…
While Eastern Europe faces severe cold spell, more people freeze to death and others are missing in the snow, reports the Herald Sun. "The situation is dramatic, the snow is up to five metres high in some areas, you can only see rooftops," said Dr Milorad Dramacanin, who participated in the helicopter evacuations in central Serbia.
In Ukraine, Prime Mi…
Acclimatise reports that a survey conducted by a Working Group on Climate Change Adaptation indicates that there are already European countries which have started to integrate climate change adaptation into their disaster risk reduction policy programmes.
"This is still an emerging issue and we should keep the focus on climate change adaptation to ensu…
The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) published the first special report on the risks of extreme events and disasters (SREX). Together with the Australian climate scientist Neville Nicholls, ETH-Zurich professor Sonia Seneviratne was coordinating lead author of one of the nine chapters. She talks about her work and the report in an interv…
GENEVA, 21 February 2012 - The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, UNISDR, today said the European Flood Alert System could soon be put to its greatest test since widespread flooding ten years ago led to its creation by the European Commission.
The UN Secretary General's Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström, said s…
This issue focuses on urban resilience and looks at recent occurrences of weather-related events causing widespread devastation and misery, including floods, typhoons and wildfires in Australia, severe winter weather in Colombia, snowstorms in Estonia and Scotland, hundreds of people and thousands of buildings lost to flash floods and mudslides in Brazi…