Japan:
Japan launches US$4 billion Sendai Cooperation Initiative as Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction opens
SUMMARY OF THE THIRD WORLDCONFERENCE ON DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
Japan launches US$4 billion Sendai Cooperation Initiative as Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction opens
SUMMARY OF THE THIRD WORLDCONFERENCE ON DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
USA:
RisingSea Levels Are Already Making Miami’s Floods Worse "We’re
already pretty well committed to significant sea level rise. We would be more
prudent to consider how to adapt to those conditions.”
Wetlands needed to reduce flooding disasters The economic benefit from converting cropland in the floodplain to wetland flood storage would be $500 million per year.
Wetlands needed to reduce flooding disasters The economic benefit from converting cropland in the floodplain to wetland flood storage would be $500 million per year.
Forecasting future flooding
Daily Dam Releases on Massachusetts’ Deerfield River Reduce Downstream Flows
Daily Dam Releases on Massachusetts’ Deerfield River Reduce Downstream Flows
Netherlands:
Largeelectrical power failure in the Netherlands (Dutch) 1
million households, Schiphol airport, train stations and hospitals among
affected
Largepart of North-Holland without electricity (Dutch)
20:05: Websites and apps of the public broadcasting channels are coming
online again one by one – these are the disaster broadcasting channels (De
websites en apps van de publieke omroep komen stapsgewijs weer in de lucht. Dat
meldt de NPO. De livestreams en Uitzending Gemist werken weer).
Other:
Mastersof the Universe Disaster databases are important, but on their
own they are not driving the change. Our colleague Adessou had been in a
session on this theme and had spoken to say we need to get personal, look at
peoples' lives and livelihoods and the everyday disasters which evidence shows
are felt by people to have the greatest impact on their lives.
Vulnerable people:
Sendai Update: Will the World’s New Disaster RiskReduction Deal Be an Empty Promise? “incomplete, incoherent, and irresponsible.” “wealthy countries are refusing to commit more money for disaster risk reduction. Never mind that climate change, for which those same wealthy countries bear the greater historical responsibility, is partly to blame for the increasing damage that poor people in poor countries are suffering because of disasters.”
I found that many sessions on the financial aspects of
DRR were held, and it is agreed that all DRR plans must have a financial and
maintenance aspect for them to be implemented and sustainable. However, the
Sendai framework itself does not have any financial commitments.
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