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Displaying 10 of about 10 resultsEL SOLĺS, Guatemala, 2 October 2015 - The tiny community of El Solís in rural Guatemala is tapping into its local knowledge on biodiversity and maintaining a native seeds bank to help it cope with drought, food insecurity and climate change.
El Solís is a small community of 51 families or 306 persons, located in the basin of the San Vicente River, Z…
By Dizery Salim
GENEVA, 10 November 2011 – Eighteen countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have agreed to tighten up on school safety while also integrating disaster risk reduction into the school curriculum, following high-level talks on education in Panama City.
Between 1970 and 2009, over 32,000 schools in South America were damaged or destro…
Guatemala City, 12 March 2024 - Guatemala has committed to enhancing the protection of its people by announcing the national launch of the Early Warnings for All (EW4All) initiative in Guatemala, which aims to provide multi-hazard early warning coverage worldwide by 2027.This national launch in Guatemala will consolidate multi-agency efforts to address…
KOBE, Japan, 3 February 2016 - The ten-year old International Recovery Platform is getting a new lease of life thanks to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
The Sendai Framework, adopted by UN member States in March 2015, as a blueprint for reducing disaster losses places special emphasis on ensuring that capacities are in place for effec…
Tokyo, 19 December 2018 – The world must overcome “its desire to forget’ was the message from a leading Japanese advocate for tsunami risk awareness at the 2nd World Tsunami Museum Conference.
Member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Teru Fukui, spoke of Japan’s national resilience movement, and extending the movement to the rest of the world.…
GENEVA, 8 June 2012 - The magnitude 4.0 earthquake recorded off the coast of Antigua on 11 May is "a warning that the Caribbean should prepare for a much more severe earthquake to come," says a leading expert.
Seismologist Joan Latchman of the Seismic Research Unit in Trinidad and Tobago said: "Caribbean islands lie in an area of relatively high earthq…
By David Singh
GENEVA, 28 October 2011 – As the number of people in Central America affected by tropical depression 12-E rises to 1.9 million, the UN has launched its second flash appeal in two days and is now asking for US$14.3 million to assist Nicaragua which is being devastated by heavy rainfall and floods.
This new appeal is based on preliminary…
According to the 2018 WorldRiskReport, Guatemala ranks seventh in the world in its vulnerability to disaster risks. On average, the country experiences 27 earthquakes of under 6.5 magnitude each month and in the past 20 years, economic losses from disasters have amounted to more than USD two billion. Guatemala City itself is within range of three…
CARTAGENA, 21 June, 2018 – Hurricane Mitch, which in 1998 cut a swathe of destruction across Central America, marked a “before and after” for the region’s approach to disaster risk reduction, an international conference heard.
The Category 5 storm, the highest on the international rating, caused over 11,000 deaths, more than 7,000 of them in…
Early warning systems can save thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars. Their effectiveness depends on being people-centered and addressing multiple hazards. In short, they are the right tool to truly implement the principle of leaving no one behind. That's why representatives from various Central American institutions and organizations h…