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Finance for Disaster Risk Management

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recoveryplatform.org -

“There have been a range of recent developments to improve access among poor and vulnerable communities to financing tools that promote resilience and reduce disaster risk. The paper will examine both 1) risk financing tools for providing financial resources post-disaster in exchange for financial commitment pre-disaster (such as insurance, catastrophe bonds, and contingent credit commitments) and 2) broader financial tools to promote savings and investment to strengthen resilience and to more...

Added by Zunia on March 14, 2010

The Tsunami Legacy

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recoveryplatform.org -

‘With an operation of such unprecedented scope, a number of useful lessons have been learned across the recovery spectrum about what worked and what did not. To take stock of these collective and country specific findings, this report asks if those involved in this massive undertaking were able to achieve takes its cue from former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s words – “it’s not enough to pick up the pieces. We must draw on every lesson we can to avoid such catastrophes in the future” – and more...

Added by Zunia on March 14, 2010

Water Scarcity and Climate Change: Growing Risks for Businesses and Investors

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pacinst.org -

The report highlights the intensifying conflict between energy use and water availability. With increasing frequency, choosing one of these resources means undermining the other – the other, usually being water. For example, the billions of dollars spent to expand oil sands development in Canada and corn-based ethanol production in the U.S. has incrementally increased fuel supplies, but at the expense of significant water impacts and greenhouse gas emissions that could ultimately limit these more...

Added by Zunia on March 14, 2010

Screening tools and guidelines to support the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation into development assistance

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preventionweb.net -

This report provides a summary of existing tools and good practices from a range of organizations to guide development practitioners in their climate change adaptation and mainstreaming efforts, as part of the project “Integrating climate change risks into UN country programming and national development processes”. The report is structured in the following way: it 1) introduces of the concept of "mainstreaming"; 2) explores the rationale for mainstreaming. 3) discusses and illustrates how key more...

Added by Zunia on March 13, 2010

Child rights and climate change adaptation: voices from Kenya and Cambodia

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preventionweb.net -

This report examines how children’s voices are represented and heard in climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction policy and decision-making spaces and how this process can best be facilitated and promoted. The report addresses children in Kenya experiencing a third consecutive year of failed rains, and Cambodian children's families’ crops devastated by unseasonal rains. It states that those children clearly articulates the links between worsening drought and erratic rainfall and more...

Added by Zunia on March 13, 2010

Supporting community recovery and risk reduction in Yogyakarta

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preventionweb.net -

This paper advocates for decisions to be made and programs designed in order to strengthen a community’s capacity to cope with the impact of disasters and to reduce their vulnerability to future hazards and shocks during the early stages of an emergency response after a disaster strikes. It emphasizes awareness of the importance of earthquake-resistant construction after an earthquake. It looks especially at the May 2006 earthquake in Yogyakarta and Central Java in Indonesia for which an early more...

Added by Zunia on March 13, 2010

Climate change 'makes birds shrink' in North America

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news.bbc.co.uk -

Songbirds in the US are getting smaller, and climate change is suspected as the cause.A study of almost half a million birds, belonging to over 100 species, shows that many are gradually becoming lighter and growing shorter wings. This shrinkage has occurred within just half a century, with the birds thought to be evolving into a smaller size in response to warmer temperatures. However, there is little evidence that the change is harmful to the birds. Details of the discovery are published in more...

Added by Zunia on March 13, 2010

Natural Disasters, National Diligence: The Chilean Earthquake in Perspective

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brookings.edu -

As President Sebastian Piñera assumes his new role as the leader of Chile, he faces serious challenges in the wake of the massive earthquake that recently shook the country. Criticism of the outgoing government's response to the natural disaster is widespread, with many questioning whether deaths and destruction could have been prevented. Daniel Kaufmann and José Tessada discuss the role that governance played in this disaster and what challenges should be addressed during the reconstruction more...

Added by John Daly on March 12, 2010

Rebuilding the social, cultural and intellectual fabric of Haiti: concept note

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preventionweb.net -

This concept note addresses one main lesson learned by United Nations agencies regarding international disaster assistance following the 12 January 2010 earthquake in Haiti: to build back better. The paper states that short term emergency measures must be immediately linked and integrated with mid- and long-term recovery programs. It highlights UNESCO's tsunami early warning systems and disaster risk reduction efforts to support to local institutions so as to help them improve resilience to more...

Added by Zunia on March 12, 2010

Policies for Low Carbon Growth

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odi.org.uk -

ODI has reviewed the low carbon growth and climate change response strategies of a range of countries with differing economic characteristics to draw out the policy implications for developing countries at different stages of development. The study, selected a cross-section of high-, middle- and low-income countries to conduct a balanced review of low carbon growth policies. This Background Note pulls together key findings, and concludes that many of these countries are, to some extent, ahead more...

Added by Zunia on March 11, 2010

A Catalyst for Green Growth

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asiafoundation.org -

“In the 18 months since Korean President Lee Myung-bak unveiled his National Strategy for Green Growth, Korea has moved aggressively to style itself as a leader amid the global push to de-carbonize. In a significant move for a country with no obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol, President Lee announced last November an emissions reduction target of four percent below 2005 levels by 2020 (or 30 percent below the business-as-usual level). The Presidential more...

Added by Zunia on March 11, 2010

Report on the 2008 Great Sichuan Earthquake

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recoveryplatform.org -

"The Disaster Management Planning Hyogo Office of the United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD), conducted four researches on damage from the Wenchuan Earthquake centered on Sichuan province of China、which occurred on May 12, 2008. This publication is a report of the research findings."

Added by Zunia on March 11, 2010

Supporting community recovery and risk reduction in Yogyakarta

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recoveryplatform.org -

"This publication analyzes a successful early recovery program carried out by the Red Cross after the 2006 Earthquake in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Innovative features of this project include: making the priority identified by the affected communities – shelter provision – the entry point for the programme; placing the community at the centre of the recovery process, with PMI playing only a facilitator role; creating the conditions for communities to build their own transitional (temporary) more...

Added by Zunia on March 11, 2010

Reducing Risk through Environment in Recovery Operations

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recoveryplatform.org -

“Response and recovery efforts can either increase or decrease the risk of future disaster events, depending on how they are managed. Reviews of recent disaster recovery and rehabilitation efforts (2004 South Asian Tsunami, Hurricane Mitch, etc.) have concluded that such operations too often built back previous risk and in some case even increased pre-existing risks. The second issue is therefore how to take advantage of the unique opportunities arising from crises for promoting sound more...

Added by Zunia on March 11, 2010

Lessons from Aceh: key considerations in post-disaster reconstruction

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recoveryplatform.org -

"This publication has been created with the intention of capturing key characteristics of the response and lessons learned, in a widely available format. It is intended to provide a valuable reference in future disaster responses. The content is based on the DEC Assurance Mission (Arup, 2007) as well as the authors observations and experiences on previous assignments in Aceh during the post-tsunami response."

Added by Zunia on March 11, 2010

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