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Displaying 15 of about 40 resultsThe conference motto for IDRC Davos 2008 is: Public-private partnership – key for integral risk management and climate change adaptation.
IDRC Davos 2008 will address global problems and attract participants from all over the globe. We expect more than 1300 participants from 130 countries.
The conference will take an integrated, multidisciplinary appro…
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The government announced in November 2012 that £120m of new funding would be released to speed up the building of 50 flood defences. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is starting the project by prioritising schemes in Leeds city centre, Sheffield, Exeter, Derby and Ipswich. Defra is also leading surface water management pl…
Early warning systems and cooperation among countries are some of the measures needed to increase resilience to water-related disasters, United Nations officials stressed today.
“Preparing for the worst can save lives. That is why we need early warning systems, disaster education and resilient structures,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his rema…
By Leonardo Sáenz
Last year, Leo Sáenz blogged about Gramalote, a town in northeastern Colombia that was buried under a massive mudslide in 2010, triggered by the wettest La Niña event in over a century. Part of a team tasked with determining a new location to rebuild the town, he reports on the progress on the Human Nature Blog.
If you’ve paid any at…
Kabul - Afghanistan suffers from cyclical natural disasters - floods and drought - which affect people annually and require expensive emergency responses, but their impacts could well be avoided, or at least mitigated, if proper water management systems or dams were built, for example.
Some farmers could switch from rain-fed wheat crops, which require…
The Programme, funded in the amount of 10 million euros, has been designed to help the country overcome the damage caused by flooding in 2015 and to reconstruct and upgrade the country’s flood prevention infrastructure over the next two and a half years.
The second contract comprises a 7-million-euro project to support the implementation of priority me…
The European Union and the World Bank, together with the UN agencies in the country, have responded swiftly to the Government’s request for assistance in addressing the damage caused by the devastating floods that hit the country earlier this month.
In addition to ongoing emergency relief efforts, a joint team of experts in disaster recovery from the E…
Startling results from a new report out of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation at the University of Waterloo find all 10 provinces and Yukon are not as prepared for floods as they could be.
The report, Climate Change and the Preparedness of Canadian Provinces and Yukon to Limit Potential Flood Damage, surveyed 103 government representatives across…
This summary report aims to provide a knowledge base for policy and decision makers that will allow governments and sponsor organisations to understand the fundamental operations of weather, climate, and hydrological services (together constituting “hydromet” services) and consequently target effective funding, in particular to developing countries.
Th…
The findings of the post disaster needs assessment captured in this report present a consolidated view of damage, loss and recovery needs estimates, based on information received from various line departments and the expertise of a multi institutional and interdisciplinary assessment team. The PDNA report provides baseline data, describes the damages an…
By Clémence Finaz & Janani Vivekananda
While much of the debate around climate financing focuses on “how much,” an equally important question is “how?”
It is far from easy to strengthen resilience in places where environmental and climate-related risks also interact with pre-existing social, economic, and political stresses, such as poor governanc…
Bangkok - UNESCO is launching a project to develop a flood risk mitigation plan for the World Heritage Site of Ayutthaya.
The launch event at UNESCO Bangkok on 22 March 2013 was attended by key players of Thailand’s national flood risk reduction efforts and representatives from the embassies of Germany, Japan, Portugal and the United States that have…
Geneva, 5 January 2012 - UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, in a recent interview, highlighted the prevention of disasters and making the world safer among his “five generational priorities” for his second term which began on Sunday.
Mr. Ban also identified promoting sustainable development; helping countries and peoples in transition; and encouraging…
This online conference will bring together ideas from around the world about how we plan for communities in response to water-related issues. They are keen to attract speakers that provide a perspective from outside the traditional realm of planning and design as well as draw on multi-disciplinary material. They hope to offer insights to help improve th…
World Rescue is a narrative, research-based mobile phone video-game inspired by the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. Through fast-paced gameplay set in Kenya, Norway, Brazil, India, and China, the player will meet and help five young heroes and help them solve global problems—such as flood, disease, deforestation and drough…