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Beijing has 15 major active fault lines, more than double the previous count, according to a new geological survey commissioned by the government. A third were “strongly active”, suggesting a high earthquake risk, but when the next big jolt may hit remains uncertain.
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Beijing’s old town, including the Forbidden City and Te…
As many of Southeast Asia’s megacities sink, understanding and addressing the problem is key to helping urban populations adapt to climate change.
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As Southeast Asia’s megacities continue to grow, some of the region’s biggest population centers are facing a growing design problem that most governments have only just begun to confront.
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By Bijeesha Budhathoki
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With the fellowship, the fellows say they helped 14 local governments across Nepal localise the centrally-available data management portal, BIPAD, so that they would be able to use the knowledge for better preparedness. In the meantime, the organisers hope for its expansion across the country.
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All DRR fellows from…
Australia’s average surface temperature has warmed by 1.4℃, and its open ocean areas have warmed by 1℃.
By Ove Hoegh-Guldberg and Lesley Hughes
Imagine, for a moment, a different kind of Australia. One where bushfires on the catastrophic scale of Black Summer happen almost every year. One where 50℃ days in Sydney and Melbourne are common. Where storms…
By Jolanta Kryspin-Watson, Shoko Takemoto, Dixi Mengote-Quah, Jian Vun
Floods are among the most frequent hazards globally, with nearly a fifth of the world’s population, many of whom live in cities, and are at direct substantial risks of 1-in-100-year flood events. While there is no shortage of innovative ideas and approaches when it c…
By Ran Boydell
Climate change will affect every aspect of our lives – including the buildings we live and work in. Most people in the US, for example, spend about 90% of their time indoors. Climate change is fundamentally altering the environmental conditions in which these buildings are designed to function.
Architects and engineers design buildings…
By Philipp Petermann, Theresa Abrassart, Thomas Moullier, Antoine Hanzen, Ghizlane Aqariden and Youssef Elouardy
In Morocco, cities are exposed to risks arising from fire, unregulated construction, industry, epidemics and natural hazards. The effects of natural hazards alone, covering floods, earthquakes, tsunamis and droughts, are estimated to co…
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The building and construction sector globally represents a huge contribution to climate change and environmental issues. The sector is responsible for close to 40% of energy-related carbon emissions, plus 40% of virgin raw material use. Decarbonising, restoring our natural environment and enhancing…
Chisinau municipality is the first city in the Republic of Moldova to join the UNDRR flagship initiative – Making Cities Resilient 2030 and the first city to use the Preliminary Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities and the Public Health Addendum.The main resilience challenges in the Chisinau municipality:Resilience is not perceived a…
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Date: 15 June 2021 (Tuesday)
Time: 8:00 Rio de Janeiro | 13:00 Barcelona/Brussels | 14:00 Nairobi | 20:00 Incheon
Duration: 45 minutes
Language: English, with simultaneous interpretation into French
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The project lab is part of the Eur…
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C40 Cities is one of the Core Partners of the Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030). This webinar aims to provide an introduction to C40 and the service offered by its Adaptation Programme and Climate Finance Facility which can support cities to progress along the resilience roadmap.…
Disaster risk management of threats and hazards is one of the critical responsibilities and function of all governments.
Citizens of any country depend on their governments to protect them, the society and everything that belongs to it – infrastructure, economy, environment, and culture from any form of disaster, either from natural or unnatural events…
Basado en las conclusiones del diagnóstico sobre los remanentes naturales y su estado, organización urbana y sus tendencias, contexto socioeconómico y exposición a riesgo, el Plan de Infraestructura Verde (PIV) para la ciudad de Esmeraldas busca establecer un nuevo esquema de desarrollo compartido entre la ciudad y su contexto natural que le provee serv…
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The Critical Asset Management System (CAMS) is a collaborative, open-source, and data-centric tool that helps cities to identify their critical assets and the cascading failure chains should one of them fail.
Climate change is increasing the risk of extreme weather events a…
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This webinar aims to introduce the ISO 37123 – Indicators for Resilient Cities, published in 2019 by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ISO 37123 is the first international standard designed to build globally standardized data for city resilience. It is applicable to any city…