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- Combining CCA and DRR can make local policies more coherent and efficient by avoiding duplicative and/or conflicting actions. Most importantly, it can create urban resilience in the long-term. Local narratives that shape the framework of urban multi-hazard risk thinking can help to craft this strategy. The results of this survey will help design the...
- As the Earth's temperature rises at an alarming rate, Britain faces the threat of catastrophic flooding. An upcoming Climate Change Committee assessment report will outline the most urgent risks from climate change. Initial estimates put the cost of flooding at £428m as the average global temperature rises by 2C and 180,000 more British homes at risk...
Second Global Conference on Health and Climate
Paris, 7-8 July 2016
Speaker: Mr. Robert Glasser, UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction
“Building Healthier Societies through implementation of the Paris Agreement”
The links between health and climate risk are increasingly clear. A 20 year…
- Seven years after the Climate Change Act of 2009, only one in ten local government units (LGUs) in the Philippines has complied with the law's requirement of drafting local climate change action plans. To empower LGUs, the Climate Change Commission plans to roll out a network of learning centers to offer standardized training modules on adaptation...
- The newly-appointed United Nations Special Envoy on El Niño & Climate Ambassador Macharia Kamau issued a stark warning and challenge to the global community today in Rome, saying that a failure to adapt to the ‘new normal' of increasing climate-linked emergencies such as El Niño would put global development targets at risk.
- GLIDE number: FL-2016-000068-NPL
Disaster type: Flash Flood, Flood, Land Slide
Affected countries: Nepal
Landslides triggered by heavy rains killed 11 people in western Nepal on 5 July 2016...An overnight downpour sent mud and stones hurtling down the slopes of the hilly district of Pyuthan, burying two houses in two different villages around dawn. Another three people lost…
- In recent years, high levels of deforestation, erosion, lack of waste management, and possibly the impacts of climate change have exacerbated the damage from torrential rains. With the support of the UNDP, a local initiative has helped market women minimize potential disasters in Waterloo through a simple but powerful tool - information sharing.
- The UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mr. Robert Glasser, today welcomed a call from a group of global leaders to close a US$2.5-billion funding gap and build resilience for countries struggling with risks, disasters and crises linked to El Niño.
- By Jonathan Fowler
GENEVA, 5 July 2016 – The UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mr. Robert Glasser, today welcomed a call from a group of global leaders to close a US$2.5-billion funding gap and bolster resilience for countries struggling with climate risk, drought and a humanitarian crisis linked to El Niño.
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- This document represents the Prague Declaration for HABITAT III - the official outcome of the UN HABITAT Europe Regional Meeting, 16-18 March 2016.