Disaster Risk

Rescue workers arrive at the scene of the Mount Merapi volcano in Indonesia

Asia-Pacific nations agree on disaster readiness strategy at UN-backed forum

28 October 2010
Recognizing the vulnerability of their region to natural disasters, 50 countries across Asia and the Pacific today agreed at a United Nations-backed conference to make risk reduction a component of their national climate change adaptation policies to cope with extreme weather events.
A powerful earthquake hit northwest China's Qinghai Province on 14 April 2010

Asia-Pacific most prone to natural disasters but lacks preparedness – UN report

26 October 2010
Countries in Asia and the Pacific are more prone to natural disasters than those in other parts of the world, with people in the region four times more likely to be affected by natural catastrophe than those in Africa and 25 times more vulnerable than Europeans or North Americans, a United Nations report released today shows.