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2 days ago · To enhance disaster resilience, prevent climate and disaster-related risks, and protect those left furthest behind, we must move beyond business as usual and engage all of society in climate and disaster risk management. The UN development system has therefore made risk-informed Cooperation Frameworks a priority in the UN Plan of Action on Disaster
5 days ago · As climate-related disasters intensify, more people will be find their homes unlivable or uninsurable. Australia needs to start planning now, to relocate our most at-risk communities before it’s too late.
23 hours ago · TOOL 1 supports compiling data, information and knowledge of a country’s environment, climate, natural hazards, exposed elements and vulnerability and the impacts of these elements to assess the ...
4 days ago · 6 Minute English. Intermediate level. Global warming. Episode 160915 / 15 Sep 2016. What might the world look like if the temperature keeps rising? There will be many losers – but who are the...
10 hours ago · July 8, 2024, 9:02 AM ET. Last July, I was living in Montreal when an emergency push alert from Canada’s environmental agency popped up on my phone, accompanied by a loud alarm. It had been ...
2 days ago · Disasters reduce adaptive capacity to climate change Risk-blind adaptation can create new risk and result in maladaptation Climate change and disasters are reinforcing inequalities, social dislocations, and reversing development gains. Risk reduction cannot occur without the use of climate information; climate change adaptation
4 days ago · This cross-sectional study analysed climate-related global disasters from 2000 to 2021, utilising definitions and criteria from the United Nations Strategy for Disaster Reduction and the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters. Data were sourced from the EM-DAT database.
