Protecting against disasters

Description

Protecting against disasters involves implementing proactive measures to reduce vulnerability and minimize harm from natural or human-made hazards. Essential actions include risk assessment, early warning systems, emergency preparedness planning, infrastructure reinforcement, and community education. These strategies aim to prevent loss of life, property damage, and social disruption by ensuring rapid response and recovery capabilities, thereby strengthening resilience and safeguarding communities against the adverse impacts of disasters.

Claim

It makes no sense to have two separate strategies for disaster resilience and climate change adaptation. Given that 90% of major disasters worldwide are from climate-related hazards such as storms, droughts and floods, these two strategies should clearly be merged.