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Displaying 30 of about 162 resultsWith less than a year before its scheduled completion, activities are on track for the 30-month Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Project which got underway in October 2010, reports the Jamaica Observer. Public awareness and community-based disaster risk management have been a particular focus.
According to the report, the $515-mill…
This background paper is part of the Pacific Possible project at the World Bank and was prepared to support the thematic focus area of "Managing increased stress on pacific livelihoods". This background paper considers the following key issues regarding the changes in Pacific Island Countries (PICs) by the year 2040:
The potential socio-eco…
Small island developing States (SIDS) in the Pacific continue to be hit by multiple disasters that can arrive in quick succession – often with cascading impacts that transcend national boundaries. In February 2018, cyclone Gita, for example battered many small islands developing States in the South Pacific and as well as large parts of Tonga, affecting…
By Thuy Dung
Deputy PM Trinh Dinh Dung has signed Decision No. 705/QĐ-TTg on approving the update program on disaster risk areas, mapping natural disaster warning, especially natural disasters related to storms, storm surges, floods, flash floods, landslides, droughts and saltwater intrusion.
The program is aimed at…
The final report of the ESPON 1.3.1 Hazards project shows the spatial patterns of natural and technological hazards in Europe as an overview on all NUTS3 areas and identifies possible impacts of climate change on selected natural hazards. The approach of the project was to use existing results of hazard research and to combine those in such a way, that…
According to the Independent Online, climate talks in Durban are on track to help poor and vulnerable nations deal with increasingly fierce heatwaves, storms and drought brought about by climate change, says the UN’s top climate official. "I am pretty confident that we are going to come out of Durban at the end of next week with probably the strongest p…
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This report, based on a comprehensive collection of scientific data from the last 20 years, provides a rallying call for Europe’s policy makers to come together to devise common strategies to help mitigate the physical, human and economic costs of the rising number of extreme weather events in Europe, such as extreme heat and co…
This report relates the findings of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) regarding the rise in global temperatures over the past ten years and the correlating rise in the frequency and severity of disaster events. The report is divided into six chapters: (i) chapter one assesses temperature data and analyzes it by continent; (ii) chapter two asse…
This document aims to succinctly summarize the climate risks faced by Fiji. This includes rapid onset and long-term changes in key climate parameters, as well as impacts of these changes on communities, livelihoods and economies, many of which are already underway. This is a high-level synthesis of existing research and analyses, focusing on the geograp…
This document aims to succinctly summarize the climate risks faced by Samoa. This includes rapid onset and long-term changes in key climate parameters, as well as impacts of these changes on communities, livelihoods and economies, many of which are already underway. This is a high-level synthesis of existing research and analyses, focusing on the geogra…
Cities depend on complex and interconnected systems of infrastructure, services, communications and social interactions, making them more vulnerable to the impacts of hazards and climate change. It is therefore critical that people, businesses, institutions, and systems in urban areas have greater capacity to prepare, respond, adapt and thrive despite s…
Since 1975, the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado has hosted the Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop. Today, the Workshop brings together international, federal, state, and local mitigation and emergency management officials and planning professionals; representatives of nonprofit, private sector, and humani…
The Conference is aimed at scholars, staff of local or international organizations and official development assistance committed to reducing the hydro-climatic risk locally.
We invite authors to submit abstracts or session proposals for the Risk-informed Sustainable Development in the Rural Tropics (RISD20) before March 9, 2020.
Abstracts and session…
The Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) Knowledge Manager Discussion Forum organises an online discussion on gender and disasters. The issue explored in the event is: What should governments, aid agencies and businesses do differently to protect lives and put women and girls at the core of disaster ris…
ISTANBUL, Turkey, 23 May 2016 - On the first day of the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS), the head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mr. Robert Glasser, warned that risk reduction efforts would struggle to have impact if greenhouse gas emissions are not radically scaled down.
Speaking to the media, Mr. Glasser said: “I am 100% sure that all…