Informes

By Sarah Wakasa DURBAN, 3 December 2011 - Linking disaster risk and climate change is key to reducing the impacts of extreme weather events that have increasingly been on the rise, according to a high level debate…

Japanese Red Cross has committed US$2.76 million to help a Viet Nam Red Cross mangrove and disaster risk reduction project till 2015. Local Red Cross deputy chairman Phung Van Hoan said at a workshop yesterday that the…

The French Development Agency (AFD) has provided credit worth 20 million euros to help Vietnam implement its climate change adaptation programme. An agreement to this effect was signed in Hanoi on December 1 between representatives of…

DURBAN, 29 November 2011 (IRIN) - Extreme weather events in the decade ending in 2010 claimed more than 710,000 lives and cost countries and people more than US$2.3 trillion as defined by purchasing power parity (PPP),…

Click on the attachment to read the report.

Click on the attachment to read the report.

SG/SM/13968 Following are the remarks, as prepared for delivery, of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the East Asia Summit, delivered in Bali, Indonesia, 19 November: It seems only yesterday that many of us were together in Cannes. The very…

GENEVA, 22 November 2011 - Following a three-day visit to Timor-Leste, the top UN disaster risk reduction official, Margareta Wahlström, said environmental degradation and disasters could threaten a visionary development strategy and budget presented by the…

Dili, 22 November 2011 - Timor-Leste continues to invest in measures to minimise the effects of disasters, the United Nations top disaster risk reduction official said during a three day visit to the country. “Timor-Leste is working…

ICAI’s review of DFID’s Climate Change Programme in Bangladesh shows that the £75 million programme is innovative and making an important and recognised contribution to climate change resilience. There are, however, areas that need addressing. • Overall…