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Displaying 5 of about 5 resultsCities from Armenia, Bulgaria, Georgia, North Macedonia, Romania and Serbia have initiated efforts to adopt holistic strategies for disaster risk reduction at local level, following resilience assessments carried out with UNDRR support.
City representatives ran assessments across a set of 10 essential dimensions for local level resilience building look…
BUCHAREST, 21 February – Risk communication that is trusted, accurate, simple, and reaches everyone at-risk is critical to saving lives and protecting livelihoods. Experience with COVID-19 and other disasters shows that - to build societal resilience - risk information must be understandable and accessible to all.
This and other lessons are set to be d…
European governments must include effective risk communication in their disaster risk reduction plans, making science-based information more understandable to more people, leaders agreed at a two-day meeting in Bucharest last week.The recent COVID-19 pandemic and climate change crises have shown how misinformation and disinformation can spread fast thro…
GENEVA, 20 February 2012 - Europe's vulnerability to disasters and the current tough winter "are a clear sign that we need to plan better and manage more robustly the risks we face," warns European Commissioner, Kristalina Georgieva, who is responsible for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response.
"The lessons from this emergency…
VIENNA, 7 October 2016 – Rolled out in the wake of one of the deadliest storms to strike Europe in decades, the continent-wide weather information service Meteoalarm plays a life-saving role by raising public awareness of how to curb risks, and fosters international cooperation into the bargain.
Meteoalarm, which provides alerts that avoid jargon and f…