Renforcement de la résilience : l’importance de la réduction des risques de catastrophe. Rio’s call to action on disaster risk reduction. By Dizery Salim RIO DE JANEIRO, 22 June 2012 - The largest UN summit ever organized closes today with an urgent worldwide call for accelerated implementation of the international blueprint for disaster risk reduction agreed by all UN member States seven years ago.
Against a backdrop of 1.3 million deaths, 4.4 billion people affected and $2 trillion in economic losses from disasters since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, Heads of State and high-level representatives urged States, international financial institutions, international organizations and civil society "to accelerate implementation" of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters.
Margareta Wahlström, UN Special Representative for Disaster Reduction, who is in Rio de Janeiro for the summit, commended the declaration's focus on future risk levels. "The potential for disaster is always rising. Resilient cities 2012: 3rd global forum on urban resilience & adaptation - Training & Events. Type: Meeting or ConferenceDate: 12-15 May 2012Location: Germany (Bonn) Description Resilient Cities 2012, 3rd Global Forum on Urban Resilience and Adaptation Continuing the journey towards a more sustainable and resilient urban future, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability together with the City of Bonn and the World Mayors Council on Climate Change is hosting Resilient Cities 2012, 3rd Global Forum on Urban Resilience and Adaptation from 12 to 15 May 2012 in Bonn, Germany, preceding and during the UN Bonn climate talks scheduled for 14-25 May 2012.
Resilient Cities 2012 will enhance exchange, learning, networking, debate and policy development on approaches and solutions to climate change for cities and municipalities. As the largest gathering of major actors in the urban adaptation and resilience field, the congress is the premier opportunity to network with the world’s adaptation and resilience experts. Additional information. How To Make Cities More Resilient. Congress of Local and Regional Authorities - Speech by Line Vennesland, member of the Committee on Sustainable Development of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe - 12th Ministerial Session EUR-OPA - Facing increased dis. 12th Ministerial Session EUR-OPA - Facing increased disasters and promoting prevention and response in a context of climate change Session on ‘Placing people at the heart of resilience’ Themes ‘the human dimension’ and ‘disaster reduction and human rights’ St Petersburg, Russian Federation, 28 September 2010 Speech by Line Vennesland, member of the Committee on Sustainable Development of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe “Human rights and the resilience of territories” Mr President, Ministers, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great honour for me to address this Ministerial Session of the countries participating in the EUR-OPA Major Hazards Agreement.
This Session is taking place in a particular context, in the wake of unprecedented forest fires in this country. The main theme of this Session is ‘Placing people at the heart of resilience’. In the Congress, we strongly believe that there is a natural link between the two. Thank you. Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) World Conference for Disaster Reduction The 10-year Hyogo Framework for Action came out of the World Conference held in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, from 18 to 22 January 2005. The Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters (HFA) is the first plan to explain, describe and detail the work that is required from all different sectors and actors to reduce disaster losses. It was developed and agreed on with the many partners needed to reduce disaster risk - governments, international agencies, disaster experts and many others - bringing them into a common system of coordination.
The HFA outlines five priorities for action, and offers guiding principles and practical means for achieving disaster resilience. Its goal is to substantially reduce disaster losses by 2015 by building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters. This means reducing loss of lives and social, economic, and environmental assets when hazards strike. Hyogo-framework-for-action-french. Hyogo 2005 - Rapport de la Conférence mondiale sur la prévention des catastrophes. Rio’s call to action on disaster risk reduction.
Top scientist appeals for better communication of risk. Professor Sir John Beddington, the UK government's chief scientific adviserBy Dizery Salim RIO DE JANEIRO, 21 June 2012 - The UK's Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir John Beddington, used yesterday's UNISDR "Resilient Cities" event at Rio+20 to make an urgent appeal for scientists to use plain language if they are to play a larger role in policymaking on climate change. "The next fifteen years are really problematic. We'll have a billion more people on the planet. Those people will be living in cities that are vulnerable and on top of that climate change will be happening," he said. "Climate change and better weather technology allow us to predict extremes well in advance and to do it well.
But if we move from the purely physical and biological sciences to include behavioral and social sciences, we can improve also how we communicate risk and help communities to improve their response. " Ms. Ms. "Population density is a major problem in Bangladesh," said Mr.