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Displaying 7 of about 7 resultsThe Mayors Adaptation Forum 2011 (MAF) is convened by the World Mayors Council on Climate Change, in collaboration with the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction and ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability. It forms the Mayors segment of the Resilient Cities 2011 congress (4-5 June 2011). Elaborating on top of the technical discussions, loc…
Forum on Disaster Risk Reduction
Associated with the Shanghai Expo 2010 'Better Cities, Better Life'
Shanghai, 28-30 July 2010
Announcement
Background
The theme of the Shanghai Expo 2010 is "Better City, Better Life," - the wish for a better living in present and future urban environments. This theme represents a central concern of the internation…
The 2009 issue of Africa Informs covers disaster risk reduction activities in Sub Saharan Africa at regional, sub regional and national level.
It includes:
Disaster risk reduction in Africa
Regional level
- Disaster risk reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action and the Africa Regional Strategy fo…
This meeting addresses the following issues:
1. Sharing scientific and technical information for a better knowledge of risks and technical tools of risk reduction in the Mediterranean area, including:
- Environmental and climatic risks and their impacts on resources
- Telluric risks: data and management strategies
- Human and ethic solidarities
2. Th…
This consultative meeting has been convened by Senator Loren Legarda, chair of the Senate Committees on Climate Change and Foreign Relations, for Asian parliamentarians to discuss actions that parliamentarians can take and lead, in order to increase the resilience of Asian countries to disasters and climate change.
The expected results of the meeting…
The Asia-Pacific disaster report, 2010:
This report addresses the exponential increase of disaster risks in Asia-Pacific, as a result of the compounding effects of inequitable economic growth patterns, population pressures and extreme climatic events. It is centred on the thinking that good efforts made by Asia-Pacific countries in reducing vulnerabil…
The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP), which takes place every two years, is the global forum for accelerating world-wide momentum on disaster risk reduction. As the primary gathering for the world’s disaster risk community, it brings together Governments, UN, international regional organizations and institutions, NGOs, scientific/academi…