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From Climate Change to Covid, Are We Ready to Deal with Disasters?

Source
Inter Press Service News Agency

Publication Date
2021-06-10

In the last 20 years, disasters affected over 4 billion people. At global level we witness on average one sweeping disaster a day, the majority of which are floods and storms. From the Covid-19 pandemic to climate change, calamities are taking new shapes and sizes, infiltrating every dimension of society. From the emotional to the political, how do we deal with disasters? How can we create a whole-of-society approach to disaster risk reduction?

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http://www.ipsnews.net/2021/06/climate-change-covid-ready-deal-disasters/