Red Cross Red Crescent - World Disasters Report 2009 - 0 views
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Timely, preventive response to disaster risk requires effective early warning systems that are technically sound, politically viable and communally acceptable. To curb increasing disaster risks and climate change impacts, as highlighted in this year’s World Disasters Report, it is high time to unite and to take concrete concerted actions, for securing human life and livelihoods and protecting socio-economic gains and opportunities.
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Timely, preventive response to disaster risk requires effective early warning systems that are technically sound, politically viable and communally acceptable. To curb increasing disaster risks and climate change impacts, as highlighted in this year’s World Disasters Report, it is high time to unite and to take concrete concerted actions, for securing human life and livelihoods and protecting socio-economic gains and opportunities.
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Page which links to the full Red Cross annual report on diasters - this years focus is on early warning, early action.