2024 Disasters in Numbers
<p>In 2024, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded 393 natural hazard-related disasters. These events caused 16,753 fatalities and affected 167.2 million people. Economic losses totaled US$241.95
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The Power of Poop
The Power of Poop (and other ways to save the world!) is a half-hour cartoon musical with the big ambition of caring for the planet while having fun too. <iframe id="distrify-player-5893" class="distrify-player"
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Global Mining Summit, 3-4 December 2014, Kolkata, India
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is organizing the Global Mining Summit 2014: An international Conference on 3-4 December 2014 in Hotel Hyatt Regency Kolkata, India, concurrently with the 12th edition
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Managing global changes and education reforms: Asia and Pacific Responses, 19-21 November 2014, Hong Kong
It is with great pleasure that we invite you to attend the Asia Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA) International Conference 2014 which will be held at the Hong Kong Institute of Education,
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Climate Change and Health Conference, 27-29 August 2014, Geneva
The World Health Organization (WHO) will host the first global conference on climate change and health from 27 to 29 August 2014 at its headquarters in Geneva. The three day conference will bring together
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6th international training course on climate risk management in a changing environment, 01-10 September 2014, Thailand, Bangkok
Climate change and its impacts have become one of the most significant challenges of the 21st century. Climate-related risks, whether concurrent or prospective need to be addressed swiftly as part of the
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5th Annual Global Mining Technology Forum, 06-08 October 2014, Santiago, Chile
Increased mineral demand has put extreme pressure on the mining industry, coupled with sustainability, health and safety issues. The need for technological advancement has never been more compelling.The
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Third Global Science Conference on Climate -Smart Agriculture, 16-18 March 2015, France
According to the FAO, Climate smart agriculture (CSA) is a way to achieve short and long term agricultural development priorities in the face of climate change and serve as an integrator to other development
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International Conference on Sustainable Global Aquaculture, 8-9 January 2015, Singapore
The ICSGA 2015: International Conference on Sustainable Global Aquaculture aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences
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2nd International Conference on Evaluating Climate Change and Development - “Tackling a Key 21st Century Evaluation Challenge” 9-11 September 2014, Washington
Several critical climate change and evaluation events have been scheduled for 2014 and 2015. First, the global community will transition from achieving targets related to Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
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Global Conference of Environmental and Sustainability Management Accounting Network , 28-30 January 2015, Sri Lanka
The Environmental and Sustainability Management Accounting Network (EMAN) Asia Pacific (AP) was established in 2001 by professionals and academics working towards the development and promotion of Sustainability