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Some 20 high-risk developing nations forged a new alliance for climate change preparedness.
The World Bank approved a US$20 million project to help communities in the Marshall Islands – already vulnerable to recurring drought and flooding – prepare better for the impact of climate change.
At COP24, the High-Level Consultative Group (HLCG) of the InsuResilience Global Partnership agreed to work on a bold vision for the Partnership to scale up pre-arranged finance to assist poor and vulnerable people affected by climate change.
With developing countries the hardest hit by disasters, a new competitive challenge fund is being launched today to help developing countries design and implement ground-breaking solutions to overcome problems they face assessing disaster risks.
A new website assesses the risk of states, cities and countries for a variety of natural disasters .
Organised by the 100 Resilient Cities network, a four-day meeting of urban experts in New York starting on July 24 will look at ways to cope with challenges including extreme weather and migration.
[De Le Confident, quotidien independant d'information generale de la République centrafricaine]
Des membres du gouvernement, des représentànts d'Organisations Non Gouvernementales (ONG), et des Associations anti-catastrophes étaient réunis le 22 juillet 2019 à l'hôtel Ledger-Piazza autour de l'évaluatlon des besoins post catastrophes (PDNA) et le cadre de relèvement (DRF). Cet atelier technique est organisé et financé par la CEEAC et la Faculté Mondiale pour la prévention des catastrophes et le relèvement (GFDRR) de la Banque Mondiale.
The world’s biggest climatic weather phenomenon is easier to predict than many calamities. But it shows the importance of preparing for other disasters, too.
Delegates from the Pacific region came together today to officially launch the Pacific Resilience Program (PREP) – a series of projects to strengthen Pacific Island countries’ resilience to natural disasters and climate change.
"Cities and countries can do a lot to fight against the water. And in the last ten, fifteen years, much progress has been made," says GFDRR's Mathijs van Ledden. [Dutch]