3. Also welcomes the continued efforts by the United Nations Environment Programme towards the strengthening of environmental emergency response and disaster prevention, preparedness and early warning systems in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster

Natural and environmental disasters

We are concerned about the medium and long term social, economic and environmental consequences of the disaster in the affected countries. The international community's commitment must be sustained.

Trauma of environmental disasters consequences to human health, 16 April 1998

Impact of disasters on development

It was impossible to tackle environmental problems without addressing the consequences of large scale, man made catastrophes such as the Chernobyl disaster.

82. Recent events have demonstrated the vulnerability of the planet to natural, environmental and technological disasters.

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The recent environmental tragedies around the world show yet again that we all have much to do to protect our global environment.

24.15 The Joint UNEP DHA Environment Unit has been consolidating the mechanisms of urgent response to natural disasters and environmental emergencies and further developing its capacity to respond to industrial accidents.

Peace advocates, feminists, and global civil society are voicing this reality more vigorously in the wake of the disastrous tsunamis.

(iii) Fact finding missions (International Environmental Technology Centre) post disaster missions with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs to assist in the assessment of the environmental damage of natural and human caused disasters (2)

Disasters may be both a consequence and a cause of environmental degradation.

We have to deploy major material and financial resources to call for the affected people, deal with the consequences of the catastrophe in the evacuated areas and rehabilitate the environment.

UNEP is working on post disaster assessments of environmental impacts, with a view to incorporating environmental concerns into the design of processes of recovery and restoration.

The recent disaster on the Gulf coast of the United States has further reminded us that no nation no nation is immune from natural disasters and environmental threats.

Nowhere else in the United Nations were the human rights of indigenous peoples the basis for examination of an environmental catastrophe.

The themes for agenda item 98 (environment and sustainable development) were (1) drought and desertification (2) development and transfer of environmentally sound technology and finance (3) natural disaster reduction and (4) relationship of the General Assembly with the conventions on the environment.

The study would follow at least one environmental catastrophe, chemical or oil spill, forest fire, manufacturing plant explosion or a natural disaster, which could be analysed using satellite imagery.

Look no further than the insurance industry as they struggle to cope with mounting catastrophic losses from extreme weather events.

Issues relating to the environment, the rational utilization of natural resources and the establishment of a natural disaster and catastrophe warning system have acquired enormous importance in the world today.

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They have reminded the international community of the vulnerability of many parts of the world to both natural and human created environmental disasters.

Tourism is dependent on an intact ecosystem and hence environmental disaster preparedness and management are particularly relevant in the view of the vulnerability of many tourist destinations to natural disasters (tsunamis, etc.).

Remote sensing of the Earth, meteorological and environmental monitoring and natural disaster management

Means of recovery from natural environmental disasters and external economic shocks

They also include poverty, deadly infectious disease and environmental degradation since these can have equally catastrophic consequences.

The Situation in Regions of the Islamic World Affected by Environmental Disasters, in particular in the Basin of the Aral Sea and the Region of Semipalatinsk.

I had in mind poverty, environmental deterioration, terrorism, drug trafficking, pandemics and, in general, the great disasters caused by man or by nature.

In the year leading up to the twentieth anniversary, the observation that the region has not recovered the livelihoods that were lost and that the ramifications of the disaster still represent a serious challenge to the economic, social and environmental development of the most affected countries causes particular concern.

13. Finally, the El Niño phenomenon, the forest fires in Indonesia and Brazil, and the Chernobyl and Semipalatinsk nuclear disasters have reminded the international community of the vulnerability of many parts of the world to natural, environmental and technological disasters.

4. Also welcomes the continued efforts by the United Nations Environment Programme through the joint United Nations Environment Programme Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Environment Unit, taking into account the respective mandates of relevant United Nations entities towards the strengthening of environmental emergency response and disaster prevention, preparedness and early warning systems

Also welcomes the continued efforts by the United Nations Environment Programme through the joint United Nations Environment Programme Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Environment Unit, taking into account the respective mandates of relevant United Nations entities towards the strengthening of environmental emergency response and disaster prevention, preparedness and early warning systems

Hundreds of millions more are at risk of becoming environmental refugees.

Hundreds of millions more were at risk of becoming environmental refugees.

Conscious of the long term nature of the consequences of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which was a major technological catastrophe in terms of its scope and created humanitarian, environmental, social, economic and health consequences in the affected countries,

And if there is one tremendous if there is one great catastrophe about the places that we've built, the human environments we've made for ourselves in the last 50 years, it is that it has deprived us of the ability to live in a hopeful present.

Integrate economic, environmental, social, and cultural considerations into disaster management plans

(e) Monitoring of the natural environment, disaster monitoring and management, and exploration of natural resources

In the case of Haiti, however, unlike its neighbours, a high degree of vulnerability due to poverty, environmental degradation, political and social instability and heavy population density creates scenarios for frequent large disasters.

Climate change and variability, the sea level rise and susceptibility to natural disasters and other global environmental phenomena caused environmental degradation.

The global nature of environmental disasters involving the Aral Sea and the former Semipalatinsk nuclear testing facility demanded a radically new approach on the part of the donor community.

Kazakhstan was grateful to the international community, including the United Nations and its specialized agencies, for its assistance in addressing the effects of those environmental disasters.

Disasters are often the trade off for ignoring environmentally sustainable development practices.

V. Response to natural disasters and environmental emergencies