Natural and Environmental Disasters
17 Oct 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
10 October 2012: Ministers responsible for water resources management in nine Caribbean countries have signed a declaration on water security at the 8th Annual High-Level Session (HLS) Ministerial Forum, a joint initiative of the Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) and the Caribbean Water and Wastewater Association (CWWA).
Water ministers from the Bahamas, Anguilla, Barbados, Belize, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Jamaica, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines...
17 Oct 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
11 October 2012: The first South West Indian Ocean Climate Outlook Forum (SWIOCOF) was co-organized by Météo France, the Indian Ocean Commission (projet Acclimate) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). This first Forum built the capacity of meteorologists on the methods and tools used to develop seasonal climate outlooks, and tailoring them to the challenges faced by islands.
SWIOCOF took place from 24 September-2 October 2012, in Reunion, at the request of the member States of the...
15 Oct 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
11 October 2012: The World Risk Report 2012, published by the Alliance Development Works (Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft) in collaboration with the UN University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) and The Nature Conservancy, focuses on the theme of environmental degradation and disasters, assessing disaster risk based on information from 173 countries.
The report’s centerpiece is its World Risk Index that identifies countries and regions at high risk of disasters based on 28...
11 Oct 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
8 October 2012: Delivering a lecture titled “Is anything being done on climate change?” at the Central Bank of Barbados in Bridgetown, Barbados, Christiana Figueres, UNFCCC Executive Secretary, conveyed three messages, namely that: climate change is happening; the world is doing something about it, “not enough, but we are walking in the right direction;” and much more can be done at the national level.
Figueres underscored that current climate modelling has underestimated both the...
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...
