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Displaying 314 of about 314 resultsMANILA, 22 July 2016 – Key UNISDR private sector partner SM Prime Holdings, Inc., the largest mall operator and developer in the Philippines, has spotlighted the importance of including persons with disabilities and senior citizens in disaster risk reduction efforts.
SM Cares, the social responsibility arm of a corporation that has made its malls a byw…
ULAANBATAAR, 2 July, 2018 - Over 1,000 cities in Asia Pacific have now signed up to UNISDR’s Making Cities Resilient campaign following a historic commitment made by all 329 municipalities of Bangladesh to join the campaign.
“Mongolia including all its cities and provinces, was the first Asian country to fully join the campaign and this is a major…
Local communities across central southern England are to benefit from a new million pound fund designed to help them prepare for severe winter weather.
The new Southern Electric Power Distribution (SEPD) Resilient Communities Fund is open to non-profit making organisations, community groups and charities across the SEPD network area, and will support p…
Bangkok, Thailand - At the first Asia-Pacific Forum on Urban Resilience and Adaptation this week in Bangkok, the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) will launch a member-based regional network headed by global humanitarian organization Mercy Corps. As a result of ACCCRN’s expanding footprint, Mercy Corps will build a larger coalition…
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All communities are at risk of emergencies and di¬sasters, including those associated with natural hazards, infectious disease outbreaks, conflicts, technological and other hazards. Particularly in the context of increased urbanization and climate change, frequency, severity and impact of those events are crucial. Th…
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Launched in September 2020, the City Climate Finance Gap Fund (Gap Fund) aims to help cities in low and middle-income countries strategize, plan and prepare climate mitigation and adaptation projects. The Gap Fund helps cities at an early stage by offering free technical and advisory services to pr…
The disaster risk reduction (DRR) status report provides a snapshot of the state of DRR in Malaysia under the four priorities of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. It also highlights progress and challenges associated with ensuring coherence among the key global frameworks at the national level; and makes recommendations f…
By Emily Foxhall
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Researchers compiling the Kinder Houston Area Survey asked residents what they considered Houston’s biggest problem, and the share who named flooding this year fell to 7 percent from 15 percent last year. Only 1 percent cited flooding as the top problem in 2017, before Hurricane Harvey deluged the state with unpre…
By Julie Arrighi
A workshop in Dar es Salaam last week brought together municipal authorities with multilateral partners including the World Bank, the Tanzanian and American Red Cross, and the Climate Centre to plan the future of an inter-agency programme to bolster flood resilience in the Tanzanian commercial capital.
World Bank and Red Cross teams h…
By Anu Jogesh
Exactly a year ago on Tuesday, heavy rains off the southeast coast of India set off a chain of events that resulted in one of the costliest disasters of 2015. Floods ravaged parts of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Puducherry between November and December last year. The city of Chennai was the hardest hit.
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By Mònica Coll Besa & Sukaina Bharwani
McPhearson and colleagues, in a recent article in Nature, argue that for the Habitat III New Urban Agenda to be effective there is a need for the global research community of biophysical and social scientists to assess development trajectories and help direct progress. But the article suggests that in the draf…
By Michael Berkowitz
This post is adapted from Michael Berkowitz's plenary speech at the Habitat III Conference, The United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development.
What is urban resilience and why does it matter now more than ever?
In many ways, resilience is fundamentally concerned with disasters. But we’re not just talking…
EAST SALFORD, United Kingdom, 13 October 12 2015 - The UK community of East Salford has over 1,400 homes and 500 businesses in Lower Broughton and Lower Kersal – all of which are at risk of flooding from the River Irwell. Salford has a long history of flooding , notably in 1946, 1954 and 1980.
In addition to public agencies investing in flood defences…
PANAMA CITY, 17 August 2015 – The global advocates network of UNISDR’s Making Cities Resilient campaign has embraced the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and committed to scale up efforts at the local level.
A flagship project launched by UNSIDR five years ago to generate momentum for the reduction of urban risk, Making Cities Resilient (MC…