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More than sixty countries renew commitments to boost disaster risk reduction globally

10:12:0, 17/07/2012

German firm to help in climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction
10:7:0, 17/07/2012
MANILA, Philippines – German experts would be assisting the Housing Land Use and Regulatory Board (HLURB) in integrating climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction planning instruments into the Comprehensive Land Use Plans (CLUP) of local government units (LGUs).
SW China quake kills 4, injures over 100
0:19:0, 27/06/2012
At least four people have been killed and over 100 others injured after an earthquake hit a mountainous area in southwest China on Sunday, local authorities announced on Monday.
UNISDR Chief surveys risk reduction in Vietnam
22:35:0, 22/04/2012
If sea levels rise by one metre from climate change in the next 20 years, half of Ben Tre province in southern Viet Nam could be flooded.
Experiments of the use of information technologies in natural disaster alerts in Cần Thơ and Đà Nẵng
14:12:0, 12/03/2012
Vietnam National Institute of Software and Digital Content Industry and Information Technology Development Centre (Panasonic Corporation) have recently examined and assessed the current state and the applicability of information technologies with the disaster alerts and minimisation system at a number of locations. Reports showed that Đà Nẵng and Cần Thơ had the ability to acquire and develop such information technologies with the support of Japan in order to supervise floods and give early alerts to minimise the possible casualties caused by floods.
Experiments of the use of information technologies in natural disaster alerts in Cần Thơ and Đà Nẵng
14:12:0, 12/03/2012
Vietnam National Institute of Software and Digital Content Industry and Information Technology Development Centre (Panasonic Corporation) have recently examined and assessed the current state and the applicability of information technologies with the disaster alerts and minimisation system at a number of locations. Reports showed that Đà Nẵng and Cần Thơ had the ability to acquire and develop such information technologies with the support of Japan in order to supervise floods and give early alerts to minimise the possible casualties caused by floods.
Experiments of the use of information technologies in natural disaster alerts in Cần Thơ and Đà Nẵng
14:12:0, 12/03/2012
Vietnam National Institute of Software and Digital Content Industry and Information Technology Development Centre (Panasonic Corporation) have recently examined and assessed the current state and the applicability of information technologies with the disaster alerts and minimisation system at a number of locations. Reports showed that Đà Nẵng and Cần Thơ had the ability to acquire and develop such information technologies with the support of Japan in order to supervise floods and give early alerts to minimise the possible casualties caused by floods.
An Giang: The Project “Community Based Disaster Management”
12:58:0, 12/03/2012
In order to effectively increase the capability of the disaster prevention system and the awareness of the community about natural disasters, and also to provide a premise for the Government’s Project 1002 and the “National Strategy for the Prevention, Response, and Minimisation of Natural Resources until 2020”, An Giang Province has launched the Project “Community Based Disaster Management” sponsored by the Australian NGO (Care) with a non-return fund of 36.000 USD until June 2012.
Progress in Climate Change Policies
11:44:0, 12/03/2012
At the Support Programme to Respond to Climate Change (SP-RCC) Conference on February 17th, international sponsors, ministries, departments, and NGOs agreed that climate change policies have expanded with much greater consistence than 5 years ago.
Video update from the UN climate negotiations: "Theatre from the Canadians"
1:34:0, 01/12/2011
In his third video update Saleemul Huq, IIED’s Senior Fellow in the Climate Change group, reports from Durban. Statements of groups and countries are being read, and lots of side events are taking place. He also comments on a recent Canadian government announcement that they will withdraw from the Kyoto protocol: “We had a bit of theatre from the Canadian govt who made an announcement that they would drop from the Kyoto protocol, which would be an extremely bad sign.”
The daily updating information of COP17 by IIED (29/11/2011)
23:23:0, 30/11/2011
In his second video update Saleemul Huq, IIED’s Senior Fellow in the Climate Change group, comments on the UN climate change opening ceremony with President Jacob Zuma and on hopes that South African political leadership “can bring [together] what seemingly look like very different points of view”