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Tackling exposure: placing disaster risk management at the heart of national economic and fiscal policy
Submitted by Robert Watt on Wed, 2012-05-09 19:56Summary:
A new CDKN Guide places disaster management in the context of national economic and fiscal policy.
Exposure to disasters is an expensive business: 2011 was the costliest year on record – in economic terms – with estimated global losses of US$380 billion.
Kiribati: 37,000 mangroves planted as part of climate change adaptation programme
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South Tarawa — Over 37,000 mangrove seedlings have recently been planted on the islands of Aranuka, Butaritari, Maiana, Makin and in North and South Tarawa.
Assistance to improve local agricultural emergency preparedness in Caribbean countries
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Project details
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Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
FAO Food and Agriculture OrganizationSummary:
Recurrent natural hazards destabilize the socio-economic fabric of the Caribbean region with most damaging impacts of hurricanes experienced in 2004, 2006 and 2008. At least 6,000 lives were lost, and over one million people were affected by climate related hazards in the region in 2004 alone. Comprehensive assessments of the impacts of the extraordinary active hurricane season 2004 on five Caribbean countries revealed that the damages were close to US $5.7 billion.
Project Components:
* Collection, validation, testing and replication of good practices in agriculture.
* Promote close collaboration between stakeholders to promote synergies and avoid possible duplications
* Promote and improve linkages between disaster risk reduction, emergency preparedness and emergency relief operations and their complementary integration into regular agricultural and rural and regional development planning
* Enhance regional learning exchange on DRMExpected Outputs:
* Establish exchange process among sectors and countries for the knowledge on DRM
* Assess the institutional frameworks in place for DRM in agriculture within the participating countries, and compare among them, including weaknesses and strengths
* Formulate the recommendations to further strengthen country specific and regional institutional settings for DRM in agriculture.
Assistance to improve local agricultural emergency preparedness in Caribbean countries
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Project details
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Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
FAO Food and Agriculture OrganizationSummary:
Recurrent natural hazards destabilize the socio-economic fabric of the Caribbean region with most damaging impacts of hurricanes experienced in 2004, 2006 and 2008. At least 6,000 lives were lost, and over one million people were affected by climate related hazards in the region in 2004 alone. Comprehensive assessments of the impacts of the extraordinary active hurricane season 2004 on five Caribbean countries revealed that the damages were close to US $5.7 billion.
Project Components:
* Collection, validation, testing and replication of good practices in agriculture.
* Promote close collaboration between stakeholders to promote synergies and avoid possible duplications
* Promote and improve linkages between disaster risk reduction, emergency preparedness and emergency relief operations and their complementary integration into regular agricultural and rural and regional development planning
* Enhance regional learning exchange on DRMExpected Outputs:
* Establish exchange process among sectors and countries for the knowledge on DRM
* Assess the institutional frameworks in place for DRM in agriculture within the participating countries, and compare among them, including weaknesses and strengths
* Formulate the recommendations to further strengthen country specific and regional institutional settings for DRM in agriculture.
Maldives Teaching Materials on Environmental Education and Climate Change
Submitted by suchitra on Tue, 2011-02-08 20:36
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UNICEF, in partnership with the Maldives Ministry of Education and the NGO Live and Learn Environmental Education (LLEE) developed a resource pack of learning/teaching materials completed in 2008 to strengthen active learning in the current environmental education curricula.
World Bank and Republic of Korea Team up on Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
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World Bank Press ReleaseFull Article
Insurance Model Pushed As Adaptation Solution for Climate Change
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SustainableBusiness.com News
Four initiatives representing more than 100 international insurance companies are calling on governments worldwide to harness risk management techniques and insurance expertise to help the developing world adapt to climate change.
They say governments can increase the protection and reduce the vulnerability of developing world populations and economies from natural disasters through better risk management and by enabling insurance-type approaches.
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Pacific Disaster Risk Management Partnership Network Discusses Climate Change Adaptation
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Climate-L.org
The fifth Annual Meeting of the Pacific Disaster Risk Management Partnership Network was organized around the theme "Enhancing the Implementation of the Pacific Disaster Risk Reduction and Disaster Management Framework for Action through a Multi-stakeholder Approach."
The meeting, which took place from 9-13 August 2010, in Suva, Fiji, aimed to: review the outcomes of regional and global meetings
