(a) Cost benefits of hazard mitigation

Measures to support risk reduction

Some Parties proposed measures to reduce mitigate the risks of floods and drought.

Encourages Governments to disseminate and share their expertise and experience in tsunami and other natural disaster mitigation measures, including hazard mapping, early warning systems and appropriate design standards

Measures to alleviate these problems are urgently required.

The board should report on internal control systems designed to mitigate risks.

There should be no relief given to any country except the least developed countries.

In recent years, much attention has been paid to the role of the board in risk assessment or management and internal controls designed to mitigate risk.

E. Measures for the rehabilitation of degraded land and for early warning systems

E. Measures for the rehabilitation of degraded land and for early

But the region s Islamist parties appear to be conscious of these risks, and determined to mitigate them.

The representative of Sudan said that there was discrimination in international support measures to alleviate poverty.

Drought and desertification monitoring and assessment 10

the end users of natural resources 18

The draft resolution underlines the importance of reducing the vulnerability of States and populations to the risks posed by nature, in particular through a culture of prevention and preparation at all levels.

That would also allow the identification of potential risks so that pre emptive action could be taken.

Disaster mitigation

It was pointed out that in the low income countries risk mitigation on the basis of bilateral or multilateral support was important to increase foreign investments.

First, the tsunami disaster illustrated the lack of a systematic disaster management framework, including disaster mitigation measures, in many countries.

With this in view, the Ethiopian Government has taken important measures to mitigate the effects of recurrent drought.

(viii) Developing preventive and preparedness measures, as well as risk mitigation and disaster reduction, including early warning systems

Indeed, industry leaders in all sectors owe it to themselves to be involved from the start. Only by turning the challenges into opportunities can social, political, and economic risks be mitigated.

However, our debates and shared experiences have demonstrated that risk reduction and preventive action with respect to vulnerable persons are the best way to contribute to reducing the impact of disasters.

The strategies that include measures to prevent and mitigate the impact of risks are the most effective.

(c) The Secretariat should be urged to devise pre emptive measures to avoid possible risks to the safety of personnel.

In order to address that problem, special adjustments might be considered, such as the mitigation measures adopted two years earlier.

Don Quijote is thus the only mission that could provide a vital missing link in the chain from threat identification to threat mitigation.

The Contracting Parties shall agree to carry out environmental impact assessment of hazardous activities, and to implement risk reducing measures.

Many developing countries are coming forward with ideas for further nationally appropriate mitigation measures that they could take.

Encourages UNDP and UNFPA to use monitoring and financial control data systems to better mitigate the risks related to programme implementation

(b) To ensure effective risk mitigation through the establishment of a coordinated security threat and risk assessment mechanism within the framework of a common system wide methodology

The Fund currently assists producers to mitigate price fluctuations through market based price risk management instruments, in close cooperation with the World Bank and other cooperating institutions.

Furthermore, lessons learned from the application of space based technologies for the mitigation of hazards should be disseminated to the public, beginning with schoolchildren and including the scientific community and the media.

6. Calls for further confidence building and transparency measures to reduce the threats posed by non strategic nuclear weapons

The growing scale of coerced displacement has led UNHCR to place increasing emphasis on action to prevent or mitigate refugee crises.

Numerous risk reduction actions are needed to protect human health and the environment from the unsound management of chemicals.

With important reserves near populated areas, governments will need to temper their enthusiasm and think about the balance between risks and riches.

Some of the ideas discussed during the consultations include suggestions for mechanisms to mitigate regulatory risk to increase the role of the World Bank and regional development banks in risk mitigation through increasing the leverage for their guarantees and to strengthen local currency lending.

In order to provide United Nations staff members with the best security possible, and therefore ensure that the Organization is able to maintain a presence in Iraq, we have had to introduce a number of mitigating and protective measures, which are both expensive and time consuming.

Radiation mitigation and standard setting

(b) Alleviation and reduction of poverty

(b) Alleviation and reduction of poverty,

60. Debt relief measures should also be applied to multilateral debt, which currently accounted for much of the huge debt burden of many countries.

Debt relief measures should be apolitical in nature unfortunately, some creditor countries had tried to use debt relief for political leverage.

Recognizing that natural disasters are a cause of displacement and that the consequences of hazards can be prevented or substantially mitigated by integrating disaster risk reduction strategies into national development policies and programmes,