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Displaying 30 of about 74 resultsGeneva, 11 January 2012 - Estimates of between $350 billion to $380 billion in global economic losses from disasters have made 2011 the most expensive year in history for catastrophes, according to the insurance industry.
The earthquakes in Japan in March and New Zealand in February accounted for the bulk of these losses, according to estimates issued…
Within the framework of the International Day for Disaster Reduction 2012 celebration, this year devoted to "Women and Girls: The (In) Visible Force Resilience"...
And in recognition of the contribution of women and girls before, during and after a disaster, and in all decision making processes around disaster risk reduction and sustainable development…
GENEVA, 13 November 2012 - UNISDR Chief, Margareta Wahlström, has welcomed the recognition by the G20 group of countries that disaster risk financing is crucial for good disaster risk management.
"The accumulation of disaster risks and losses are hurting the economies of rich as well as poor countries. It's urgent and critical for sustainability to ma…
NEW YORK, 9 November 2012 - Development cannot be sustainable if it does not incorporate disaster risk reduction was a key message by Member States yesterday as the UN General Assembly's Second Committee (Economic and Financial Committee) began its two-day meeting on the issue of moving sustainable development forward.
In light of that key message, Mem…
GENEVA, 13 July 2012 - Makati City in the Philippines has scooped an award for an innovative city-to-city learning partnership between Quito, the capital of Ecuador, and the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu.
The City-to-City Cooperation award was presented this week during the 25th anniversary meeting of CITYNET, the Asia-Pacific local authority network, in…
RIO DE JANEIRO, 18 June 2012 - Around 200 legislators from 74 countries and the European Union met yesterday on the sidelines of the UN Rio+20 sustainable development conference this afternoon to approve a "Legislators' Protocol," containing a set of "Rio Scrutiny Principles" to strengthen legislators' capacity to hold governments to account on promises…
Press release 2012/02
302 human impact disasters claimed 29,782 lives; affected 206 million and inflicted record economic damages of $366 billion in 2011
Geneva – For two consecutive years the long-term disasters trend has been bucked by major earthquakes which claimed thousands of lives and affected millions in both 2010 and 2011, according to new st…
External evaluation of the implementation of UNISDR's regional project DIPECHO South America 2011-2012.
Evaluación externa de la implementación del proyecto regional UNISDR para DIPECHO América del Sur 2011-2012.
Proyecto:
Fortaleciendo la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres en América del Sur a través de la promoción de la implementación de las priori…
This guidance note presents a series of steps to initiate and sustain Pre Disaster Recovery Planning (PDRP) in order to ensure that communities "build back better" following a natural disaster. It offers guidance on developing a planning framework and attempts to present the key steps and considerations at a broad level, to present relevant examples, an…
This workshop report shares the best practices and experiences in the innovative and state-of-the-art hydrometeorological services and their use in disaster risk reduction mechanisms that are effectively protecting lives, livelihoods, and assets. The first part of the report focuses on best practices in hydro and weather hazard monitoring and early warn…
This monthly newsletter highlights UNISDR activities around the world. This issue reports on: (i) the two-day post-mortem on Typhoon Sendong in the Philippines leading to the Mindanao Declaration on Disaster Risk Reduction Priorities; (ii) the new World Meteorological Organization's weather and climate information system; (iii) Oxfam's briefing paper Cr…
Rio+20 Side Event: The main theme of this Rio +20 side event will be disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. More details will be coming soon.
Rio+20 Side Event: One of the themes of this Rio +20 side event will be Disaster Risk Reduction.
The number of people affected by climate disasters annually grew to 262 million between 2000 and 2004. In 2010, natural disasters have affected over 15 million people in urban centers in at least 25 countries. In OECD countries 1 in 1,500 people are affected by climate disaster, in developing countries 1 in 19 people are.
Low-risk cities show low vulne…
Background
According to recent figures, in 2011, there were a total of 302 disaster events in 98 countries, which killed 29,782 people, affected about 260,00 people and caused economic losses estimated at US$ 366 billion. The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) indicated that the Americas ranked second in the terms of global occ…