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The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved US$7 million in financing to Seychelles to help the country better cope with extreme natural events such as floods, mud slides, or tsunamis.
Cities around the world are failing to plan for fast-increasing risks from extreme weather and other hazards, particularly as population growth and surging migration put more people in the path of those threats.
The World Bank approved US$50 million for the Strengthening Critical Infrastructure Against Natural Hazards Project in Tajikistan.
The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery has developed a diagnostic tool called CityStrength to help cities identify areas of weakness and the investments and institutional measures necessary to address them.
By 2050 there will be $158 trillion in assets at risk from flooding alone — not to mention 1.3 billion people at risk — driven largely by climate change and urbanization.
Today, the first African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology (AMCOMET) Africa Hydromet Forum opened its doors to over 500 African leaders from governments, public and private sector representatives, civil society, and development partners.
The issue of global financing for development is a critical theme in the international development agenda with the most recent United Nations (UN) meeting being the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD), which was held in July.
The World Bank has launched the Pacific Resilience Program (PREP), a series of projects aimed at strengthening Pacific Island countries’ resilience to natural disasters and climate change.