Thursday, April 30, 2015

News in Japan - April


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.
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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