Natural and Environmental Disasters
26 Jul 2012
The Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in the Americas is a multi-stakeholder forum that brings together key DRR stakeholders throughout the Americas. It is a participative space for knowledge sharing that promotes the planning, monitoring and collective decision making and strategy, as well as action to implement the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters, all with linkages to international and national climate...
24 Jul 2012
Organized by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and hosted by the Government of Samoa, the biennial meeting will discuss the improvement of tropical cyclone warning system matters within the Pacific Ocean south of the equator. The Tropical Cyclone Committee comprises members of the south west Pacific region within the RA V of the World Meteorology Organisation. Member countries include Australia, New Zealand, Cook Islands, Fiji, Tonga, Niue, Kiribati, Samoa, Vanuatu, the Solomon...
23 Jul 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
19 July 2012: Catarina de Albuquerque, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to safe drinking water, highlighted that the impacts of climate change are exacerbating water and sanitation challenges in Tuvalu. She recommend the Government of Tuvalu immediately adopt and implement its draft Water Act and its Sustainable and Integrated Water and Sanitation Policy.
De Albuquerque warned that climate change impacts Tuvaluans’ rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, as it intensifies water scarcity...
20 Jul 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
13 July 2012: The Organization of American States (OAS) hosted a discussion of initiatives undertaken by the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA) since its launch in 2009 at the Fifth Summit of the Americas.
The “Dialogue of Regional Activities in the Framework of the ECPA,” organized by the OAS, the US State Department and the non-governmental organization Partners of the Americas, was held at OAS headquarters in Washington, DC, US, on 13 July 2012.
Opening the...
18 Jul 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
10 July 2012: The Latin American Development Bank (CAF) launched Geopolis, a think tank/network aimed at strengthening institutional capacity, and building a culture of disaster prevention and management in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
The initiative was announced at CAF’s Infrastructure for Climate Change Seminar, held on 5 July 2012, in Bogota, Colombia.
Geopolis will start as a network of specialists and scientists from LAC, assisted by international experts, working on...
