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UNCCD launches ‘Global Drought Snapshot’ report at COP28 in collaboration with International Drought Resilience Alliance (IDRA).

<p>Recent drought-related data based on research in the past two years and compiled by the UN point to &ldquo;an unprecedented emergency on a planetary scale, where the massive impacts of human-induced droughts are only starting to unfold. According to the report, <em>&lsquo;Global Drought Snapshot,&rsquo;</em> launched by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) at the outset of COP28 climate talks in the UAE, few if any hazard claims more lives, causes more economic loss and affects more sectors of societies than drought.</p> <p>&nbsp;...

The Regional Development Council-7's Infrastructure Development Committee is proposing to meet with district representatives to discuss possible funding for the Metro Cebu Integrated Flood and Drainage System Master Plan Project.

In the prevention and management of climate risks, women, the youth, and vulnerable people who formed the majority of the population are either less represented or not involved at all in the various decision making bodies. Such a situation, which stems basically from some socio-cultural practices and rules, had generated…