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Displaying 160 of about 160 resultsGeneva, 12 October 2011 (WMO) – A four-year pilot project involving 15 West African countries has trained 5 700 subsistence farmers – including 1 000 rural women - in how to access and use weather and climate information to maximize yields and minimize risks.
The project, known as METAGRI, organized 146 roving seminars to increase the interaction betwe…
As General Assembly holds thematic debate, Secretary-General urges governments to integrate disaster risk reduction into development agendas
Faced with socio-economic fallout from increasingly frequent and severe disasters, Governments must invest in disaster risk reduction and weave it into their development agendas in order to save more lives and bui…
Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR), a not-for-profit NGO working in the field of watershed development and adaptation to climate change, has made the films to chronicle the success of its watershed projects in two villages in the in drought-hit Marathwada region, reports The Indian Express.
The 4.48-minute film, The Battle for Water - A Drought…
By James Bradbury and Forbes Tompkins
This post is part of WRI’s “Extreme Weather Watch” series, which explores the link between climate change and extreme events.
The summer of 2012 is poised to go down as a record-breaker. (And no, we’re not talking about the Olympics).
Extreme weather and climate events continue to make headlines throughout the U…
KOBE – The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the global roadmap to reduce disaster losses and strengthening the processes for doing so by 2030, highlights the pivotal role of stakeholders working in science, engineering, technology, and innovation (SETI). In particular, it states that science and traditional knowledge are…
Vacancy ISDR/C/06/2011
United Nations Core Values: - Integrity - Professionalism - Respect for diversity
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The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) is a multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder platform to enable societies to increase their resilience to natural, technological and environmental disasters and to reduce associa…
11 October 2018, Bali - Mami Mizutori, Head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), has called on ministers of finance around the world to incentivize the private sector to commit to risk-informed investment and practice.
Mrs Mizutori, who is also the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative on this topic, made the comme…
GENEVA, 10 October 2018 – The last twenty years have seen a dramatic rise of 151% in direct economic losses from climate-related disasters, according to a report released today by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction in advance of International Day for Disaster Reduction on October 13.
In the period 1998-2017, disaster-hit countries reported direc…
GENEVA, 9 July, 2018 - Government ministers and civil servants from across Asia and the Pacific are back at their desks this week with a fresh mandate to accelerate action on reducing disaster losses and disaster displacement as extreme weather continues across the region.
The importance of the outcomes of the Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster R…
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Australia is, of course, no stranger to extreme weather - bushfire, flooding, rains and skin-peeling heat are central to its history and mythology - but the contrasts this southern summer have been particularly stark. Lesley Hughes, a professor of biology at Macquarie University and councillor with publicly funded communication body the Climate C…