An initiative to enhance workplace safety was launched. We reformed and strengthened emergency management, enhanced our capacity for disaster prevention, mitigation, and relief, effectivelyprotected against floods, droughts, forest and grassland fires, geological disasters, and earthquakes, and provided qual...
We will enhance disaster prevention, mitigation and relief capabilities, as well as emergency rescue capacity, better protect against floods, droughts, forest and grassland fires, geological disasters and earthquakes, and provi...
Elspeth Macdonald, CEO of the Scottish Fishermen's Federation, said that fishing and offshore wind are already working well together to share space in the ocean and that both industries are eager for the government to play its role in helping them collaborate effective...
We will set up an over 100-mu mangrove demonstration area to the benefit of coastal ecological diversity protection and disaster prevention and mitigation in Guangdong. (IX) We will build up Guangdong’s prominence in culture with high standard, fully boost cultural creativity and innovation to ...
Time is not always money: A preliminary study on socially sustainable strategies for banana xanthomonas wilt (BXW) mitigation efforts in Mbarara region, Ug... Following the Ugandan government's announcement in 2016 that banana xanthomonas wilt (BXW) disease was under control, national-level anti-...
Australia’s wind and solar obsession has driven power prices through the roof and the poor and elderly to early graves. Staying warm in the depth of winter is no longer just a matter of turning up the dial on the AC, for the poorest and most vulnerable it’s a daily battle for surviv...
We intensified efforts to shore up weak links in rural compulsory education, and increased subsidies in the nutrition improvement program for compulsory-education students in rural areas, benefiting over 37 million students. We reduced the homework load and eased the off-campus tutoring burden on stud...
Historically, government leaders have looked at climate change in terms of mitigation and adaptation. While these are important fundamental concepts, theyaren’tnecessarily effective prompts for action. Figure 5 illustrates five distinctive lenses—five ways of looking at action on climate change—t...
While the existing literature mainly focuses on disaster mitigation measures such as structural retrofitting, this study proposes a holistic framework of DRR investments in which structural (windproof retrofitting) and financial (insurance premium subsidies and post-disaster relief) are all taken into ...
We will improve the response mechanism for major emergencies, build up the Eastern and Southern China Emergency Rescue Center and four regional emergency rescue centers at provincial-level and improve the capabilities of aviation emergency rescue and disaster prevention and mitigation. Consolidating the ...