{"id":3830,"date":"2019-07-17T11:42:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T11:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3830"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:25","slug":"green-infrastructure-natures-best-defense-against-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/17\/green-infrastructure-natures-best-defense-against-disasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Infrastructure Nature\u2019s Best Defense Against Disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By the UN Environment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Extreme weather patterns such as prolonged drought, flash floods and cyclones \u00adcontribute to food insecurity, instability, and migration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest devastating cyclones Idai and Kenneth, which hit Mozambique last spring, are cases in point.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.undp.org\/content\/undp\/en\/home\/blog\/2018\/Climate_Change_and_the_Rise_of_Poverty.html\">According to the UN Development Programme<\/a>, \u201cmore than 100 million people could fall back into extreme poverty due to climate change [by 2030], while over 200 million people could be displaced due to more frequent and severe climatic disasters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, held in Geneva, Switzerland from 13 to 17\u00a0May 2019 is the world&#8217;s foremost gathering on reducing disaster risk and building resilience. It provides a platform for the Member States to share knowledge and report on the implementation process of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unisdr.org\/files\/43291_sendaiframeworkfordrren.pdf\">Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, adopted in 2015.<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/press-release\/green-infrastructure-natures-best-defence-against-disasters\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the UN Environment Extreme weather patterns such as prolonged drought, flash floods and cyclones \u00adcontribute to food insecurity, instability, and migration. The latest devastating cyclones Idai and Kenneth, which&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}