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Global disasters cost P2.5T in last decade, topping UN estimates
Toyota :: Japan | 5 days ago
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A man walks past a mural depicting a fantasy world of mermaids and dolphins along Matahimik Street in Sikatuna Village, Quezon City...Economic losses from disasters worldwide have gotten out of control, totalling $2.5 trillion in the past decade,
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Palestine launches first national disaster loss database
Ramallah :: Palestine | 3 months ago
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Palestine is highly vulnerable to natural hazards, mainly earthquakes, floods, landslides, droughts and desertification. The whole region frequently faces small to mid-scale disasters and is vulnerable to large-scale urban disasters, triggered by
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DISASTERS: Slow-onset disasters take toll
Bangkok :: Thailand | 6 months ago
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What we often find, instead, is that we [are] far too late to react. Last year, residents in Thailand had months of flood warnings , beginning in July 2011, as flooding upcountry triggered by a tropical storm slowly wound its way south...But even
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Mikati urges focus on disaster management
Beirut :: Lebanon | 7 months ago
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Prime Minister Najib Mikati urged academics and universities across Lebanon Wednesday to focus more research on disaster management and the environmental challenges facing Lebanon. Researchers have a primary role in intensifying their research on
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Women should hold their own in disasters–UN
Bangkok :: Thailand | 7 months ago
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PhilippinesSaying that gender equality is an essential element in building resilience to disasters, United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's special representative on disaster risk reduction has urged women to take a more active part in
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World's best climate change laws are in the Philippines - Margarita Wahlstrom: A reaction
World’s best climate change laws are in the Philippines – Margarita Wahlstrom: A reaction By
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UN lauds Philippines' climate change laws ‘world's best'
Asia :: Philippines | 1 year ago
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UN lauds Philippines' climate change laws world's best' 2:33 am Friday, May 4th, 2012 An environmental crusader for two decades now, Senator Loren Legarda authored the Climate Change Act of 2009 (Republic Act No. Climate Change Commission and
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UN says 2011 disasters were costliest ever
Fukushima :: Japan | 1 year ago
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The economic cost of disasters in 2011 was the highest in history — with a pricetag of at least $380 billion, mainly due to earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand, a U.N. envoy said Monday. Margareta Wahlstrom, the secretary-
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UN says 2011 disasters were costliest ever
Fukushima :: Japan | 1 year ago
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Margareta Wahlstrom, the secretary-general's special representative for disaster risk reduction, said the figure was two-thirds higher than the previous record in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina struck the southern United States...Despite the rising
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Austerity brings smaller cars to Geneva auto show
Geneva :: Switzerland | 1 year ago
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Automakers are thinking small — in size, not ambition. After years marked by environmental concerns, then the economic downturn and now European austerity measures, car manufacturers have honed their products to cater for cost-
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