The latest resilience news from around the world
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Energy Ministers from the 21 APEC member economies have adopting the Cebu Declaration and Instructions, a joint statement which highlights an agreement on energy resilience.
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The Disaster Recovery Institute’s Future Vision Committee has announced the appointment of senior professionals from Japan, Switzerland and the UK as members of the committee.
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The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs has received an update on current threats to the US homeland. FBI Director James Comey, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) Nicholas Rasmussen all appeared before the committee.
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Impact Forecasting has published its latest Global Catastrophe Recap report, which evaluates the impact of the natural disaster events that occurred worldwide during September 2015.
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According to a new survey by XpertHR 40 percent of businesses do not engage in succession planning, which can compromise their competitive market position, engender a reactive business environment, and unnecessarily increase talent acquisition costs.
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Scientists working off west Africa in the Cape Verde Islands have found evidence that the sudden collapse of a volcano there tens of thousands of years ago generated an ocean tsunami that dwarfed anything ever seen by humans. The researchers say an 800-foot wave engulfed an island more than 30 miles away.
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The Risk Management Institution of Australasia (RMIA) recently approved the formation of a Special Interest Group (SIG) working on Organizational Resilience. An expert panel of practitioners from around Australia will work on a 12 month project, focusing on good practice and implementation
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Senior disaster management officials from the 21 APEC members have introduced a new collaborative platform for increasing the resilience of Asia-Pacific economies in response to the ‘new normal’ of increasing natural disaster threats due to climate change.
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Registration is now open for the Sixth Annual National Roundtable for Disaster Risk Reduction to be held from November 2nd-3rd, 2015 in Calgary, Alberta.
