Pacific island countries and territories are among the most vulnerable in the world. They combine high exposure to frequent and damaging natural hazards with low capacity to manage the resulting risks. Since 1950 extreme events have affected approximately 9.2 million people in the Pacific region: they have caused 9,811 reported deaths and damage of around US$3.2 billion. Vulnerability is exacerbated by poor socioeconomic development planning, which has increased exposure and disaster losses, and by climate change, which has increased the magnitude of cyclones, droughts, and flooding. The current arrangement is inefficient and expensive, and it fails to address the underlying causes of vulnerability or to make disaster and climate risk economy-wide and development-wide issues. But barriers to achieving climate- and disaster resilient development can be overcome if three critical requirements are met.
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2012/01/01
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Informativo
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No. do relatório
73132
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1
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1
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2012/10/09
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Disclosed
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Nome do documento
Acting today for tomorrow : guidance for regional organizations
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facility for disaster reduction and recovery;disaster and climate risk management;climate change adaptation;Disaster Risk Reduction;Special Climate Change Fund;disaster risk reduction efforts;international climate change adaptation;Clean Technology Fund;economic development policy;international cooperation agency;multilateral development bank;investment and development;global environment facility;extreme event;political leadership;political authority;socioeconomic development;comparative advantage;budgetary process;natural hazard;climate resilience;economic integration;island countries;working relationship;capacities in support;mutual trust;weather event;tropical cyclone;marginalized group;cash crop;regional policy;Climate Investment;bilateral sources;blue box;resident representative;disaster losses;green box;
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