(c) Increased capacity of developing countries to deal with disaster relief.

Conscious of the particular vulnerability of the small Territories to natural disasters and environmental degradation,

The Meeting emphasized that the Charter mechanism provided for a rapid reaction to natural and technological disasters.

Where necessary, the Member States will identify a coordination body, authorized to organize interaction of disaster management and rescue services, and creation of a system of assistance in case of natural disasters and emergency situations.

As we meet today, the World Conference on Disaster Reduction is being held in Kobe, Japan, with a view to launching a new framework for action to increase the world's resilience in the event of natural disasters.

It should not apply in the case of United Nations operations to assist in natural disasters, which did not give rise to exceptional risk.

There needs to be a recent backup at an alternate secure location, in case of such kind of disaster.

Such a system would enable countries at risk to exchange information on disaster forecasts and to undertake a joint response to natural disasters.

Disaster reduction, reducing vulnerability and building resilience in the event of natural disasters contribute to the achievement of sustainable development.

It was, therefore, her delegation's understanding that the draft optional protocol would apply only to natural disasters that actually produced a situation of exceptional risk.

That was especially true in the case of developing and least developed countries, whose economic performance could be unduly affected by regional conflicts or natural disasters.

Approximately 600,000 deaths occurred worldwide because of weather related natural disasters in the 1990s and some 95 percent of these were in poor countries.

SDI addresses these goals through educational communications, education and training meetings, support to humanitarian projects, and providing disaster relief.

A humanitarian fund for education in emergencies needs to be established, and soon, so that when calamity strikes, vulnerable children are not forced to wait in misery and insecurity while the adults pass around the begging bowl.

All disasters are hence the result of human failure to introduce appropriate disaster management measures.

Several delegations expressed concern with regard to the possibility that a State might not apply the draft protocol to personnel who provided emergency assistance to that State in the event of natural disasters.

(f) Disaster management

Disaster and investigative teams are activated and experts are mobilized to manage the aftermath of the tragedy, which often receives much attention in the subsequent days and weeks.

Classifications Researchers have been studying disasters for more than a century, and for more than forty years disaster research.

1. We express our sincere condolences and sympathy to the victims of the disasters and uphold international solidarity against disasters.

The secretariat of ISDR uses satellite imagery in disaster risk reduction.

Before the disaster, Japan issued about 1.5 billion in earthquake related catastrophe bonds as a risk management device the debt is canceled if a precisely defined seismic event occurs.

Shifting from emergency disaster response to more proactive disaster prevention, risk reduction and mitigation will, in our view, be the key to success.

H. Women and Disaster Situations

Disaster Relief

Some disasters are less likely than others, and some remedies are more costly than others.

(d) Disaster risk reduction diminishes the need for humanitarian emergency interventions in the aftermath of disasters

The Asian Disaster Reduction Centre is a specialized organization for disaster reduction based in Kobe, Japan.

21. Welcomes also the efforts by creditors to provide flexibility to developing countries affected by natural disasters on a case by case basis so as to allow them to address their debt concerns

21. Welcomes also the efforts of, and invites, creditors to provide flexibility to developing countries affected by natural disasters on a case by case basis so as to allow them to address their debt concerns

20. Welcomes the global review of disaster reduction initiatives coordinated by the secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, and emphasizes the importance of periodic review as a means of discussing disaster trends, assessing policies aimed at mitigating the impact of disaster and offering examples of successful initiatives

India set up its national disaster management authority to strengthen the national and institutional legislative system to deal with disaster risk reduction.

24. Also welcomes the efforts of and invites creditors to provide flexibility to developing countries affected by natural disasters on a case by case basis so as to allow them to address their debt concerns

Welcomes also the efforts by creditors to provide flexibility to developing countries affected by natural disasters on a case by case basis so as to allow them to address their debt concerns

Rules for Calamity and Crisis

When disaster strikes, we act.

C. Post disaster recovery

Disaster risk reduction

Impact of disasters on development

The Army Corps of Engineers budget for levee construction in New Orleans was gutted, including funds specifically aimed at the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project.

The nuclear industry s very existence is dependent on hidden public subsidies costs borne by society in the event of nuclear disaster, as well as the costs of the still unmanaged disposal of nuclear waste.

1. Expresses its solidarity with the peoples of the countries that have been struck by natural calamities as they cope with the consequences of these disasters

A number of factors, including climate change and poverty, had increased the risk of natural disasters and the fragility of the countries facing them.

Those initiatives were either specific to a particular phase of the disaster cycle, specific to a type of disaster or specific to a geographical region.

We recognize that the international community has accumulated much experience with disaster risk reduction through the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction and the succeeding International Strategy for Disaster Reduction.