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ISDR Highlights December 08Highlights this month include the results of the Poznań Climate Change talks, the appointment of a new Asia Pacific regional Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction, and a call by Asian Ministers for 10% of humanitarian funding to go to disaster risk reduction. |
18 Dec 2008 | Newsletter |
New Philippines Senate climate change committee tasked with DRRAt the instigation of Senator Loren Legarda, UNISDR's regional disaster risk reduction champion for the Asia Pacific, the Philippines Senate have set up a Committee on Climate Change which will be tasked with climate and disaster risk management. |
17 Dec 2008 | News briefs |
ISDR Highlights November 08Highlights this month include the appointment of Margareta Wahlström as the new UN Assistant Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, and progress on world parliamentarians and local government advocacy for disaster risk reduction. |
28 Nov 2008 | Newsletter |
ISDR Highlights October 08Highlights this month include a call by parliamentarians to make the Hyogo Framework legally binding, a climate change adaptation declaration by a global women's congress, and worldwide events on the International Day for Disaster Reduction. |
31 Oct 2008 | Newsletter |
UN Secretary-General calls on Member States to use disaster risk reduction for climate change adaptationTo help Member States find solutions to cope with climatic disasters, BAN Ki-moon, the United Nations Secretary-General, convened a ministerial meeting in New York on Monday 29th of September... |
29 Sep 2008 | News briefs |
ISDR Highlights June 08Highlights this month include the UNFCCC Nairobi Work Programme asking for more input on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, the greenlighting of a major cost-benefit analysis of disaster risk reduction, and the launching of Senegal's national parliamentarian network on disaster risk reduction. |
30 Jun 2008 | Newsletter |
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United Kingdom peer review report 2013 - Building resilience to disasters: implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action (2005-2015)
This report presents the first peer review undertaken to assess progress in the implementation at national level of the ...
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