ESCAP-EPOC
07 Feb 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
6 February 2013: The 45th session of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)/World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Typhoon Committee considered, inter alia, urban flood risk management, cyclone renaming, severe weather forecasting, an assessment report on the influence of climate change on tropical cyclones.
At the session, which took place from 29 January to 1 February 2013, in Hong Kong, China, the Typhoon Committee noted its new publication, “The Second...
09 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
20 December 2012: Asia-Pacific countries have adopted a five-year regional plan of action for cooperation and capacity building in the use of space technology for disaster risk management and sustainable development.
Countries adopted the plan at the close of an intergovernmental meeting on “Asia-Pacific Years of Action for Applications of Space Technology and the Geographic Information System for Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainable Development 2012-2017,” organized by the UN...
26 Oct 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
23 October 2012: The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) have released the ESCAP/UNISDR Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2012, titled “Reducing Vulnerability and Exposure to Disasters.” The report was released on the sidelines of the Fifth Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR).
The 133-page report underscores that growing disaster risks in the Asia-Pacific region are driven by the...
15 Oct 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
10 October 2012: The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) convened the “High-level Policy Dialogue on the Role of Macroeconomic Policy and Energy Security in supporting Sustainable Development in the Pacific,” from 8-9 October 2012 in Nadi, Fiji.
Participants considered how fiscal and monetary policy, through tax, subsidies, national budgets, and public investment to develop markets for the private sector to invest further in renewable energy and energy efficiency...
10 Oct 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
4 October 2012: The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (ESCAP) has announced the launch of a five-year campaign to improve disaster risk reduction (DRR) and management, as well as to minimize the environmental costs of regional economic growth. The announcement came on the first day of UN World Space Week, observed from 4-10 October 2012.
The campaign, titled “Asia-Pacific Years of Action for Applications of Space Technology and the Geographic Information System for Disaster...
