Informes

On December 26, 2004, a 9.1 Richter scale magnitude earthquake created a devastating tsunami that struck 12 countries around the Indian Ocean. Nearly 230,000 people lost their lives, and 2.3 million people were left homeless. And tens of thousands…

Since immediately after a devastating earthquake struck Central Java and Yogyakarta provinces in May 2006, members of the global alliance Action by Churches Together (ACT) International, Church World Service (CWS), Yakkum Emergency Unit (YEU), and Yayasan Tanggul Bencana di Indonesia…

Kabul, 24 January 2008. The Government of Afghanistan and the United Nations today called for over US$81 million to help people hit by the rising price of wheat flour. The appeal aims to help over 2.5 million Afghans at…

Introduction Melting glaciers, denuded slopes, expanding deserts – these images of environmental change have long captured public attention. With the threat of global climate change, the environment has moved from casual concern to the forefront of the…

Info Note No. 41 For use of the information media. Not an official record Hanoi/Geneva, 19 December 2007 (WMO) - With climate change and drought threatening agriculture in Asia, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) met with regional members in Hanoi, Viet Nam,…

ROME - With the United Nations Climate Change Conference drawing to an end in Bali, Indonesia, the Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), Josette Sheeran, called on governments and humanitarian organisations to take urgent steps to…

JAKARTA, 13 December 2007 (IRIN) - Local officials took action in September 2007 when Mt Kelud in the province of East Java, Indonesia, began showing signs it might erupt. They put into practice lessons learned from the December 2004…

The International Research Institute for Climate and Society, based at Columbia University in New York, is developing tailored forecasting and monitoring products to help the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies improve its capabilities to both respond…

How does climate matter to the world's hungry? Erratic weather affects agricultural productivity, contributing to chronic hunger and food shortages. Lack of food makes the longer-lasting sustainable solutions we all hope for harder to reach. When food is scarce, subsistence farmers may sell…

BACKGROUND AND RISK FACTORS Bangladesh is a very low lying, densely populated country, frequently affected by cyclones and floods which annually, cause the internal displacement of one million people . This year the country has had unusually high levels of…