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Displaying 13 of about 13 resultsGENEVA, August 11, 2016 - Wildfires have been raging across California, the Iberian peninsula, and Provence in the south of France, underlining the growing threat to life and property posed by this natural hazard as global temperatures rise and drought conditions spread in many regions.
Mr. Robert Glasser, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representat…
CANCUN, Mexico, 25 May 2017 – Efforts to reduce disaster death tolls in Portugal, Iran, Brazil and Fiji have been honoured by an international award from the United Nations and Japan’s Nippon Foundation.
Issued at the 2017 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, the biennial Sasakawa Award recognised projects that have made a substantial contribut…
The fifth feature in this Making Cities Resilient 2030 series, under the theme ‘From Risk to Resilience: Building a Local Climate of Success’, profiles Matosinhos, in Portugal
Matosinhos’ success in building an impressive record of early warning early action rests on one key principle: get close and stay close to your citizens. This so-called ‘proximit…
Matosinhos in Portugal and the Province of Potenza in Italy were recognised for pioneering strategies to reduce the impact of disasters including fires and earthquakes.
May 23, 2022, Bali, INDONESIA – Two new Resilience Hubs in Europe have been named during the UN’s flagship event on disaster risk reduction.
Matosinhos in Portugal and the Province of…
On the occasion of the European Urban Resilience Forum 2023, held in Cascais, Portugal, on 18-20 October 2023, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Portuguese National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction organized an informal peer learning exchange of the Making Cities Resilient 2030 initiative.Cities from Bosnia & Herzegovina, Moldova…
The 8th annual meeting of the Portuguese National Platform on DRR’s working group on Resilient Cities was held in the municipality of Loulé in the region of Algarve on 24-26 May. The three-day event started with a ceremony to celebrate the 51 local governments that have joined the Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) initiative, in which they wer…
As part of a series of actions contributing to the topic of urban heat and wildfire risk management in the Europe and Central Asia region, UNDRR has released the report, Flames of Change: Innovating heat and wildfire governance for inclusive communities, and the accompanying special report on disability inclusion in DRR and prevention. This release is p…
BANGKOK, 10 April 2012 - Threatened by increasing and lethal seasonal floods, the 500-year old Malaysian port city of Melaka is making considerable efforts to reduce the disaster risks that it currently faces from such climate related catastrophic events.
Located along the Straits of Malacca, one of the world's busiest shipping routes, the city of Mela…
City leaders and officials from around the world are better positioned to unlock resources and achieve on-the-ground impact for the development of resilient urban infrastructure projects. Representatives of 21 local governments from 19 countries advanced their risk assessment and climate finance skills to provide a springboard from planning to acce…
Portuguese city commits to sharing its experience and expertise on inclusive climate change adaptation with other municipalities around the world
November 22, 2022, Brussels, Belgium – The Portuguese city of Amadora received recognition today for its leadership on climate action and resilience.
At an official meeting in Brussels, the United Nat…
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…
Local governments play an essential role in disaster risk reduction (DRR) and building resilience. At UNDRR’s 2022 Global Platform in Bali, local leaders from across the globe joined a productive discussion on important issues around disaster resilience at local level.
Participants at the Local Leaders Forum discussed how the Sendai Framework sup…
THE CASE OF COVID19 IMPACT IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF AMADORA, PORTUGAL
The Municipality of Amadora with 24 square kilometers of area and 180,000 inhabitants was the first municipality in Portugal with COVID-19 registered cases which were imported from Italy (during Carnival holidays).
These cases, which were detected on February 27, 2020 in 2 schools, le…