{"id":19596,"date":"2016-04-25T11:56:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T10:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19596"},"modified":"2016-04-25T11:56:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T10:56:32","slug":"un-risk-expert-warns-we-are-heading-for-catastrophe-over-natural-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19596","title":{"rendered":"UN risk expert warns we are heading for catastrophe over natural disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, earthquakes, floods, heatwaves and landslides left 22,773 people dead, affected 98.6 million others, and caused $66.5bn (\u00a347bn) of economic damage.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, according to UN figures, in 2014 just 0.4% of the global aid budget of $135.2bn \u2013 roughly $540m \u2013 was spent on efforts concerning disaster risk reduction (DRR) &#8211; things like\u00a0infrastructure, storm shelters and early warning systems.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Robert Glasser, the special representative of the UN secretary general for disaster risk reduction, has warned that the world\u2019s failure to prepare for natural disasters will have \u201cinconceivably bad\u201d consequences as climate change fuels a huge increase in catastrophic droughts and floods and the humanitarian crises that follow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">More information <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2016\/apr\/24\/world-heading-for-catastrophe-over-natural-disasters-risk-expert-warns?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\">here<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, earthquakes, floods, heatwaves and landslides left 22,773 people dead, affected 98.6 million others, and caused $66.5bn (\u00a347bn) of economic damage. Yet, according to UN figures, in 2014 just 0.4% of the global aid budget of $135.2bn \u2013 roughly $540m \u2013 was spent on efforts concerning disaster risk reduction (DRR) &#8211; things like\u00a0infrastructure, storm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19596"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19603,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19596\/revisions\/19603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}