May 8, 2012
Government and business must put weather-related disaster risk management at the heart of economic and fiscal planning.
That is the message from a new Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) report launched today (May 9) at the African leg of the World Economic Forum (WEF).
The...
May 5, 2012
CDKN’s Elizabeth Colebourn and Amy Kirbyshire report from the New Delhi, India outreach event for the IPCC’s ‘Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation’ (SREX), 2-3 May 2012.
“The IPCC published the SREX. So what? What happens now?” asked one of the participants of the IPCC SREX outreach event in Delhi this week. This blunt question got to the heart of the purpose of the SREX...
April 23, 2012
CDKN is helping to bring the results of the IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) to audiences in developing countries through a three-part series of regional reports. The series pulls out region-specific findings about current and future impacts of climate extremes from the full SREX report, along with options for dealing with them.
CDKN is also...
March 9, 2012
Zafar Iqbal Qadir is the Chairman of the Government of Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority. Pakistan was listed by Germanwatch as the No 1 most affected country in the world in 2010 when it comes to climate related disasters
I took over the office of Chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) ten months ago and have overseen a paradigm shift in the NDMA’s overall policy. I think we have now moved away from being reactive to being proactive. In...