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The impact of disasters in Asia Pacific on schools and children
2016-06-19 20:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A greater humanitarian focus on schools before, during and after natural disasters will save lives, protect children and benefit communities and countries, Save the Children says in a report due out this week. The report details the impact on education of earthquakes, floods and storms that struck Nepal, Myanmar, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vanuatu last year. The disasters range from large humanitarian crises - such as the massive twin quakes in Nepal that killed 8,900 people - to the seasonal...
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Averting disasters : 'Planning can mitigate climate change impact'
2016-06-13 02:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
APP: Appropriate planning and putting effective strategy in place could help mitigate the adverse impact of global meteorological changes that has reached extreme levels due to global warming and changing climate patterns. National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Spokesperson Ahmed Kamal said that natural disasters were unavoidable but the damage from such tragedies could be lowered reasonably by keeping an affective and comprehensive strategy in place to address certain key issues. Commenting...
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Call for collective action on supply chain disasters
2016-05-31 13:39:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Unions are using the International Labour Conference (ILC) taking place in Geneva this week to call on governments, employers and worker organisations to establish measures to prevent and remedy disasters in global supply chains.
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The Climate Change Solution to Disasters
2016-05-25 23:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: This year is already on track to be the hottest on record, beating out 2015 for this unfortunate distinction. Every year, if it's not the mercury rising it's the tangible impacts of climate change. More and more people are living in harm's way. Some of the most powerful hurricanes and cyclones ever recorded have made landfall in recent years, powered by rising and warming seas. Age-old sources of drinking water are dwindling away because of erratic rainfall patterns. Glacial melt and aquifer depletion...
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How smart cities will protect us from natural disasters in the future
2016-04-20 15:30:58| Extremetech
The smart cities movement aims to arm cities with connected sensors that can alert communities about a disaster in time to avert or modify its course.
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