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Displaying 116 of about 116 resultsNuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff recommended Monday that the agency act quickly on recommendations put forward by a federal task force to ensure reactors aren’t vulnerable to major 'natural' disasters, says The Hill. It follows the release of a staff report Monday which urges NRC to reevaluate the risks posed by earthquakes and floods, taking i…
Fredrik Dahl reports for Reuters that the U.N. atomic agency would carry out international safety checks of ten percent of the world's reactor units over a three-year period, under a draft action plan to prevent any repeat of Japan's nuclear crisis.
A document from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), obtained by Reuters on Monday, outlined a…
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Risques naturels et environnement industriel (DRA-013), Opération a
La description des phénomènes naturels réalisée dans ce document montre leur complexité, leurs relations et la grande diversité de leurs manifestations. Cette synthèse met en évidence pour chaque phénomène considéré (séisme, inondation, mouvement de terrain, tempête) les pa…
On Tuesday, Feb. 26th, 2013 An-Najah University launched the "Disaster Risk Mitigation in Palestine" project in the presence of Ms. Margareta Wahlstrom, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Disaster and Risk Reduction, Prof. Rami Hamdallah, University President, Dr. Barbara Borzi, the Head of Vulnerability and Te…
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…
Agencies must work harder to incorporate Disaster Risk Reduction into aid and development programmes, RedR survey finds.
Agencies and NGOs need to take greater steps to incorporate ‘Disaster Risk Reduction’ into their aid and development programmes, helping to save lives and reduce the devastating impacts of natural and man-made disasters, a new RedR s…
Kathmandu – The monsoon season has started in Nepal, bringing not only torrential rains and triggering landslides, but a risk of water-borne diseases and worsened sanitation conditions that could bring more devastation to disaster-affected communities in Nepal, says child-rights humanitarian NGO, Plan International.
In such harsh conditions, it is ofte…
Risk and poverty in a changing climate:
This summary presents the key findings and recommendations of the Report, which identifies disaster risk, analyses its causes, shows that these causes can be addressed and recommends the means to do so. The over-riding message of the Report is that reducing disaster risk can also help in reducing poverty, safegua…
BUCHAREST, 27 September 2016 – Nations on the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black Sea have decided to bolster their tsunami warning systems by giving France, Greece, Italy and Turkey a regionwide alert role.
The decision came at a meeting of the 39-country Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the Nor…
GENEVA, 8 September 2017 - The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mr. Robert Glasser, today expressed his deep concern at the volume of extreme weather events unfolding across the world and the implications for future loss of life and economic damage to the world economy.
Mr. Glasser said: “There can be little do…
GENEVA, 25 April 2015 - One of Asia's poorest and most disaster-prone countries, Nepal is reeling from a massive earthquake near the capital Kathmandu which has claimed hundreds of lives.
The mountainous nation was struck by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake at around noon local time on Saturday, with the epicentre in Lamjung District around 80 kilometres nor…