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  1. WorldRiskIndex - The Mainichi Daily News

    12 January 2012. Full article in Japanese available here:

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  2. Showdown nears for climate deal - Nature

    22 November 2011. There’s a storm brewing in South Africa, although not the kind that climate scientists warned of last week in a report linking extreme weather to global warming (see http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature.2011.9397; 2011). This one is the political tempest that is swirling around the Kyoto Protocol. Forecasts suggest that it will hit in full force when delegates to the seven­teenth meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change gather in Durban on 28 November — and it could threaten progress on an alternative agreement.

    Interviewee: Dr. Koko Warner, UNU-EHS

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  3. Auszeichnung für Vorreiter bei der Anpassung an den Klimawandel - Cop2Cop

    16. Dezember 2011. Den „Blauen Kompass 2011“ haben das Bundesumweltministerium (BMU) und das Umweltbundesamt (UBA) am 12. Dezember in Bonn an die Preisträger des Wettbewerbs „Sich zukunftsweisend wandeln – jetzt handeln: Anpassungspioniere gesucht!“ verliehen. Prämiert wurden die besten Ideen zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel in Deutschland. Unter den vier Preisträgern ist auch die Stadt Wuppertal, die Praxispartner in dem vom Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe (BBK) geförderten Forschungsprojekt „Kritische Infrastruktur, Bevölkerung und Bevölkerungsschutz im Kontext klimawandelbeeinflusster Extremwetterereignisse” (KIBEX) ist. |Read more

WorldRiskReport 2011

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    WorldRiskReport 2011 - are disasters preventable?

    Earthquakes, floods, droughts, storms: disasters seem to occur unexpectedly and with unimaginable force. But why do some countries better succeed than others to cope with extreme natural events? The WorldRiskReport 2011 helps to evaluate the vulnerability of societies to natural hazards. On behalf of Alliance Development Works, UNU-EHS has developed the WorldRiskIndex and calculated risk values for 173 countries worldwide. 

    WorldRiskReport

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