Scroll down to watch the descriptions and video recordings of the webinars organized by the IFRC Urban Collaboration Platform on a variety of topics such as: Rethinking Urban Community Risk Reduction and Resilience while responding to COVID-19 The Coalition Building process for Urban Resilience Heatwaves in cities Nature-based solutions for urban resilience Urban migration and […]
UNDP’s work in climate change, disaster risk reduction and energy (2015-2017) This report is comprised of 15 country case studies providing examples of climate action, disaster risk reduction and recovery, and sustainable energy. Each case emphasizes the integrated approach to these work streams and similarly, the linkages and benefits that each extends to the others.
Resilient: Zero carbon, risk-informed, sustainable Read More »
Resilience: rising to the challenge in coastal regions Coastal areas offer unique opportunities and challenges. The dynamics of the physical processes (from the daily tides to the ever-changing morphology) form the backdrop to some of the world’s most productive and valuable habitats and give rise to distinctive coastal economies and cultures. But they are under
Resilience Scan July – September 2017 Read More »
This report is published by the World Bank. Ending poverty and addressing climate change are the two defining issues of our time. Both are essential to achieving sustainable global development. But they cannot be considered in isolation. This report brings together these two overarching objectives and explores how they can be more easily achieved if
Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty Read More »
Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities A tool for disaster resilience planning. Resilience as defined by the Sendai Framework is the ability of a system, community or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate, adapt to, transform and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner, including through the preservation
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Esta guía está destinada a apoyar los esfuerzos de las Sociedades Nacionales de la Cruz Roja y de la Media Luna Roja en las deliberaciones sobre políticas nacionales relativas a la adaptación al cambio climático, en particular a través de la elaboración de planes nacionales de adaptación al cambio climático (PNA) por parte de los
Participación en la Formulación de Planes Nacionales de adaptación al Cambio Climático Read More »
The Asia and Pacific region is extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Unabated warming could significantly undo previous achievements of economic development and improvements of living standards. At the same time, the region has both the economic capacity and weight of influence to change the present fossil-fuel based development pathway and curb global
A region at risk: The human dimensions of climate change in Asia and the Pacific Read More »
Abstract The safety of lives and property at minimum costs is essential across all human endeavours, and this is the goal of governments and individuals. Environmental risks such as hydrological hazards (e.g. flooding) on the other hand threaten the safety of lives and property most times at monumental costs to those affected irrespective of their
Effectiveness of Social (New) Media in the communication of climate risks Read More »
Esta experiencia se desarrolla en Málaga, Santander, ubicada a 120 km de Bucaramanga, en Colombia, Unidad Médica de la Seccional. ORIGEN DE LA DIFICULTAD ENCONTRADA Problemas de seguridad alimentaria en una zona rural, donde existen altos índices de malnutrición, desnutrición y pérdida de cosechas por incapacidad para almacenarlos, conservarlos, consumirlos y transportarlos. Se elaboró una
Asistencia Alimentaria para la Integración Social en Santander Read More »
The Quezon City (QC) in the Philippines is developing assertively and replacing vegetation by buildings,roads, gardens and parks, one of the effects of urbanization that exacerbates the formation of Urban heat Islands (UHI) and changes the microclimate, raising summer temperatures by up to 7oC and increasing surface run-off into cities streams and rivers. To resolve