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The protection of human life – even in the midst of war and disasters – should be a concern for all of us, as global citizens.
Facing Nature’s FuryThe Pakistan earthquake continues a streak of shocking natural disasters during the past year: the Indian Ocean tsunami, killer droughts in Niger and other countries in Africa, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Central American mudslides, and Portugal’s wildfires.
Another common element in all of these disasters is our shocking lack of preparedness, especially to help the poorest members of society.
The theories of Albert Einstein and the discovery of fission in 1938 made nuclear power possible, but also led to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to the disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima.
The second type of instrument is emergency funding to deal with unforeseen events, such as natural disasters, market breakdowns, and political instability.
Remittances also arrive first in times of economic hardship and in the aftermath of natural disasters.
PRINCETON – The election result in Italy, where populists and far-right parties topped the polls, following the twin disasters of Brexit in the United Kingdom and Donald Trump’s election in the United States, seems certain to harden a common liberal belief: the people brought these calamities on themselves.
Such a grand strategy would have four key pillars: (1) providing security for the US and its allies; (2) maintaining a strong domestic and international economy; (3) avoiding environmental disasters (such as pandemics and global flooding); and (4) encouraging liberal democracy and human rights at home and, where feasible,abroad where feasible.
The Oslo meeting also advanced work that is already underway to establish a cohesive response to the education crisis afflicting tens of millions of children caught up in war, civil strife, epidemics, and natural disasters.
Here incomes are often considerably more volatile than in richer countries, owing to heavy reliance on a few commodities or industries and hence higher vulnerability to external shocks, including weather-related and other natural disasters.
Either way, even if remittances from abroad act as a form of insurance in the event of natural disasters, this does not mean that they will increase when other types of external shocks occur.
A time comes when all disasters have occurred and all stupidities are recognized.
When facing disasters, all of us feel a need to do something.
There can be no doubt that those who are attempting to help people involved in disasters and trauma have noble motives, but that is not enough.
It no longer practices the policies that led to multiple disasters.
During the past two years, a rash of climate-related disasters have hit global wheat supplies.
And, of course, these figures pale in comparison to the humanitarian disasters in Syria, Libya, and Yemen.
There have been close calls in recent decades, but there have not been any unmitigated disasters.
Currently, other member states can provide assistance to Greece only by bending the rules, which prevent them from lending except in response to natural disasters or circumstances beyond a country’s control.
But now it, too, is promising to draw the necessary lessons from the Japanese experience and upgrade its safety procedures, including a reassessment of the potential effects of natural disasters on nuclear-plant operations, conceding that the occurrence of more than one natural disaster simultaneously had not been considered previously.
And, third, helping those who are most vulnerable to disasters is the ideal starting point for the effort to aid all people by establishing universal targets for development and climate change.
I have seen the human toll of disasters – from earthquakes in China and Haiti to floods in Pakistan and Bangladesh to Superstorm Sandy, which affected the Caribbean and North America, even inundating the lower floors of the UN facilities in New York.
When business, civil society, and government team up to help countries withstand disasters, they save lives, boost stability, and create opportunities that enable markets and people alike to flourish.
Losses from weather disasters are increasing, but the reason isn’t climate change – as many of us assume – but demographics.
The United Nations Framework Convention has refused to fund disaster preparedness efforts unless states demonstrate exactly how the disasters they feared were linked to climate change.
Climate change policies are not the best way to reduce the effects of weather disasters.
But nearly all of them are fleeing dire situations caused by interstate conflict, internal strife, natural disasters, and economic collapse.
While humanity has survived all these microbe-inspired disasters so far, maintaining our survival in a world in which germs/viruses and their hosts continuously interact in new ways will require us to think in innovative ways as well, and to bring ever more sophisticated technical wit and social intelligence to the contest.
Hedging instruments such as so-called catastrophe bonds can help insure against the increasing risk posed by natural disasters.
This large-scale migration, which is putting economic and social pressure on host countries across the continent, is driven largely by factors like poverty, instability, and natural disasters.
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