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Displaying 60 of about 338 resultsUNISDR Regional Office for Africa and African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) will venture into a partnership to establish dialogue between climate scientists and disaster risk managers.
The partnership is aimed providing relevant climate services to be translated by disasters risk managers into risk reduction measures, co…
Showcase Governments who successfully build disaster resilience towards drought, floods, and cyclones.
Institutional changes for addressing natural hazard and climate risk as a sustainable development priority against the context of the July /August 2011 drought disaster in the Horn of Africa.
This international workshop follows the 2009 EC DG Research-UNISDR event on “Dialogue Between Scientists and Stakeholders” and the 2010 on “Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation: Reducing Water-related Risks in Europe” and aims to promote dialogue between the scientific and policy maker communities towards more effective measures to adapt to climate cha…
The main objective of the forum is to develop regional consensus climate outlook for the September to December 2011 rainfall season. It will also provide a regional interaction platform for the climate scientists and various users of climate early warning advisories. Further, the forum will review lessons / experiences from the use of the products provi…
A major international conference on urban development today called for an acceleration of national government-led approaches on climate resilience ahead of the upcoming COP28. The Global Urban Resilience Forum’s Call for Action highlighted the need for appropriate budget allocations and a clear division of roles and responsibilities between various…
The climate event called El Niño is a natural pattern that has important implications for the ecosystems and biodiversity of the Americas and the Caribbean region, given its frequency, intensity and negative impacts. The prolonged droughts resulting from El Niño are its main manifestation, causing alterations in the dynamics and physiological cycles of…
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…
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…
Wendwosen Beri Belete has vivid memories of the night of August 6, 2006 when devastating flash floods swept through his home in the city of Dire Dawa in Eastern Ethiopia. The floods were the worst the city had experienced in 50 years, resulting in the deaths of 256 people.
‘It rained solidly for two hours and the floods took everyone by surprise. In…
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Remarks by SRSG Mizutori
Intervention at the 146th Committee of the Regions (CoR) Plenary Session
DEBATE ON NATURAL DISASTERS: RESPONDING TO EMERGENCIES AND BUILDING RESILIENCE IN CITIES AND REGIONS
13 October 2021
Dear President Tzitzikostas,
Dear Commissioner Lenarčič,
Ladies and Gentlemen Members of the European Committ…
Key points
A major drought occurred in late 2017, early 2018 in the Pampas of central-eastern Argentina, a major world breadbasket. The drought was linked to a mild La Niña event and intraseasonal modes of atmospheric variability. Several locations in the Pampas showed historical lows in precipitation during this event. Lack of rainfall was compounde…
‘Transforming institutional drought risk management for resilience - The GAR Special Report on Drought 2021’
Watch Recording
Date: 27 July 2021
Time: 11:30 - 13:00 Delhi Time / 13:00 - 14:30 Bangkok Time / 16:00 - 17:30 Sydney Time / 18:00 – 19:30 Fiji Time
‘The Asia-Pacific Drought Risk Dialogue’ will unpack…
Key messages
Implementation of EU WFD and EU Drought Policy;
Transboundary cooperation in Drought Planning and Management;
Development of a sound drought and scarcity indicator system;
Definition of environmental flows and establishment of a minimum flow regime (MFR) for drought periods.
This case study is a contribution to the GAR Special Repor…