INTRODUCTION The ASEAN Risk Monitor and Disaster Management Review (ARMOR) is important for several reasons. Firstly, until this point there has been no authoritative publication that provides risk...
Emerging insights from GWP’s analysis of 80 NDCs from a water perspective, in conjunction with the UN’s 2018 progress report on implementing the Sustainable Development Goal on Water (SDG 6) 1...
The week-long Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, hosted by the Swiss government in Geneva and organized by UNDRR, closed today with a warning that not enough countries are putting...
“We must stop Tuvalu from sinking and the world from sinking with Tuvalu”, Secretary-General António Guterres said in a tweet posted during his on-going trip to the South Pacific. Pointing out that...
La Banque mondiale a approuvé aujourd’hui un financement total de 162 millions de dollars pour trois projets visant à améliorer la qualité de l’éducation, l’accès aux soins de santé primaires et la...
17 May 2019 – UN Member States today called for increased investments in ecosystem-based solutions for disaster prevention. Healthy ecosystems play a crucial role in preventing environmental...
Buenos Aires/Panama/Geneva, 17 May 2018 – Red Cross leaders from across the Americas and around the world are gathering in Buenos Aires from 21-23 May for the 21st Inter-American Conference of the...
World Bank approved today a total of US$162 million for three projects to improve access and quality of education and primary healthcare services, and to strengthen disaster risk management...
The Guidelines for Rapid Environmental Impact Assessment in Disasters (REA) provide a means to define and prioritize potential environmental impacts in disaster situations. The Guidelines are...
Geneva 17 May 2019 (WMO) _ The impacts of climate change, associated sea level rise and extreme weather are amplifying as a result of record greenhouse gas levels and combining with urbanization,...