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Displaying 236 of about 236 resultsBy Naraya Carrasco, Cindy Patricia Quijada Robles and Lorenzo Piccio
Located in some of the most disaster-prone regions in the world, Small Island Developing States (SIDS) know the impacts of natural hazards all too well. In fact, more than half of the countries most vulnerable to natural hazards are SIDS. The effects of climate change…
By Sharon Ernesta
Seychellois school children are being given the capacity to participate in climate change resilience initiatives by managing native tree nurseries.
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The construction of the nurseries at Glacis and La Retraite primary schools is part of the Adaptation Fund project Ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change in Seychelles (EBA p…
Island most severely afflicted by earthquake is sinking, potentially increasing coastal flooding and causing sea levels to rise faster than global average.
By Brendan Bane
The 2009, magnitude-8.1 Samoa earthquake dealt a great deal of damage to the Samoan Islands: Tsunami waves as high as 14 meters (46 feet) wiped out multiple villages, clai…
Significant storm events are corroding the democracy of island nations, leading to a newly discovered phenomena labelled 'storm autocracies', according to new research from Deakin University.
Deakin Business School Professor of Economics Mehmet Ulubasoglu recently made the connection after analysing 60 years of data from 1950, finding strong links be…
By Katherine Angier
Facing a future with increasingly powerful hurricanes and rising seas, Cuba is addressing its vulnerability to climate change head-on.
The country recently approved a new constitution that highlights the importance of addressing climate change, and its National Plan to Confront Climate Change, known as Tarea Vida (“Project Life”),…
The Government of the Virgin Islands will be financing the re-establishment and upgrade of a Territory-wide Multi Hazard Early Warning System to the tune of $1.5 million dollars.
Following the passage of hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, an allocation of approximately half a million dollars was spent as part of the 100 day rehabilitation plan to re-es…
A USAID-supported training to boost Tonga's resilience against climate change and disasters was launched in Nuku'alofa on Monday.
The CEO of Ministry of Meteorology, Energy, Information, Disaster Management, Climate Change and Communications (MEIDECC), Paula Ma'u launched the training programme that will strengthen the skills of local government and NG…
Following several consecutive years of serious hurricane impacts, The Bahamas launched an aggressive new program on June 26, 2019 to research disaster risk, preparedness, and climate change in partnership with Pacific Disaster Center (PDC)—a University of Hawaiʻi applied science and research center. The nation’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Fin…
The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPM), a Division of the Ministry of National Security, in collaboration with the Disaster Management Units (DMUs) of the Ministry of Rural Development and Local Government and other key national stakeholders, simulated a night-time eruption of the Piparo Mud Volcano. This simulation was conducted on W…
By Sarah Gibbens
Though Maria was the worst storm to ever strike Dominica, the country’s economy has been shaken several times over the past decade, absorbing major hurricanes and tropical storms in 2015, 2013, and 2010.
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[Prime Minister Roosevelt] Skerrit’s impassioned speech was a plea for the funds to make Dominica into the world’s first…
The Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) report provides a latest snapshot of the DRR progress the Republic of Fiji has achieved under the four priorities of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. It also highlights some of the key challenges surrounding the issue of creating coherence among the key global frameworks at the country level; and makes…