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The yearly issues of the WorldRiskReport focus on varying critical topics related to disaster risk management and are published in German and English. The report includes the WorldRiskIndex, which identifies the risk of an extreme natural event becoming a disaster for 181 countries worldwide. [1]
"Pioneering Disaster Risk Index (DRI) Tool". United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Archived from the original on 2014-06-18. Provides key information on all countries in the world. "World's Worst Natural Disasters" Includes list of world's deadliest disasters in history.
Happy Planet Index 2012: ranked 24 out of 111; Where-to-be-born Index 2005: (Economist Intelligence Unit): ranked 63 out of 80; Education Index 2008: ranked 66; Global Gender Gap Report 2014: (World Economic Forum): ranked 8 out of 136; Legatum Prosperity Index 2014: ranked 67 out of 142 [13] Satisfaction with Life Index 2018: ranked 78 out of ...
The Global Risks Report 2020 highlights environmental pressures more than any of its predecessors. The report identifies five of the top five risks by likelihood and four of the top five by impact as environmental risks (if "water crisis" is also counted as an environmental risk, rather than a "societal risk" as classified in the report). [1]
On March 11, 2024, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources' Toni Yulo-Loyzaga and the European Union launched the €60 million (P3.67 billion) "Green Economy Programme for the Philippines" in the form of a grant from 2023 to 2028 to mitigate environmental degradation and combat climate change to foster economic growth and social ...
Rank Country 2024 score Change from 2023 Change from 2022 Change from 2021 Change from 2020 Change from 2019 1 Somalia 111.3: 0.6: 0.8: 0.4: 0.4: 1.0 2 Sudan 109.3
A Reuters survey of economists estimated payrolls increasing by 200,000 jobs in November after rising by 12,000 in October, the fewest since December 2020. The closely watched employment report is ...
Under the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010 (Republic Act 10121), a "state of calamity" is defined as "a condition involving mass casualty and/or major damages to property, disruption of means of livelihoods, roads and normal way of life of people in the affected areas as a result of the occurrence of natural or human-induced hazard".