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The ninth feature in this Making Cities Resilient 2030 series, under the theme ‘From Risk to Resilience: Building a Local Climate of Success’, profiles Makati, in Philippines As the Philippines’ business capital, Makati City goes from a city of 600,000 residents to one of 5 million each day. With a robust economy and growing business opportunities, Mak…
This contributing paper presents a mapping tool that connects the seven World Meteorological Organization (WMO) state of the climate indicators to climate change impacts and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Although there is emerging scientific literature on climate change, risk and policy action, the interdisciplinary nature of…
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This contributing paper explores the opportunities offered by digital media mining to complement impact databases. Impact data on past disasters caused by natural hazards (in short, impact data) are of paramount importance for several applications. These include advocacy for investments in disaster risk reduction (DRR) and providing and evidence base fo…
Check against delivery Remarks by Mami Mizutori, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction Consultation on Water and Adaptation at COP27 - in Cairo, Egypt 8 May, 2022     Esteemed Representatives from the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Prof. Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General of World…
JOIN ON MS TEAMS REGISTER HERE Introduction UNDRR is participating in the 2022 edition of the Africa Climate Week, which is a key step on the road to COP27 in Egypt in November. For this occasion, UNDRR is organizing a side event to increase the understanding and promote the important for integrated approaches to climate change adaptation and disas…
The purpose of this contributing paper is to demonstrate scalable and replicable methods to advance and integrate the use of Earth observations, specifically ongoing efforts within the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Work Programme and the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites Work Plan, to support risk-informed decision making, based on documente…
BANGKOK: The Women’s International Network for Disaster Risk Reduction (WIN DRR) Leadership Awards have been granted to Ms. Esline Garaebiti, Director General of the Ministry of Climate Change Adaptation, Meteorology, Geo-Hazards, Environment, Energy and Disaster Management in Vanuatu and Dr. Homolata Borah, a researcher from India working with communit…
Since its inauguration in 1914, the Panama Canal has become one of the most important structures in the world. Not only is it the route through which 6% of world commerce flows, but it is also one of the most transcendental and eye-catching modern engineering constructions: a system of locks that connecting the Pacific and Atlantic oceans through an art…

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