Governance

Hawaii lawmakers passed on Friday first-of-its-kind legislation that will increase the state’s lodging tax to raise money for environmental protection and strengthening defenses against climate change -fueled natural disasters.

The Global Status of School Safety paints a picture of the status of implementation of the Comprehensive School Safety Framework across the globe, summarising the key findings of the policy survey.

Cuts in staffing and threats to funding at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - which includes the National Hurricane Center and National Weather Service - are diminishing operations that accurate hurricane forecasting relies on.

In Understanding and Addressing Disaster Risk, the authors explain how people modify the environment and exert power over each other in ways that make nature potentially harmful and put people in harm’s way.

This guidance offers generic principles and entry points for UNDP programme design and implementation, while outlining key considerations, supported by case studies, tools and references.

The US Administration is considering shrinking or abolishing the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), despite its key role in US resilience to extreme weather events and other disasters.

The increasing impacts of climate change are clear, both globally and in the UK. This report assesses the extent to which the UK’s Third National Adaptation Programme (NAP3) and its implementation are preparing the UK for climate change.

In the face of mounting disaster risks and with the memory of Hurricane Irma still vivid, Sint Maarten has taken a decision to build a comprehensive approach to disaster risk finance to bolster the island's financial preparedness to natural disasters.