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OUR CHALLENGE

Emergency Planning

Since 2005 when the World Health Organisation started to advocate serious viral disease planning the United Kingdom ran or participated in nine major simulation exercises on pandemics, some of them pan-European initiatives. Natural hazard impacts are becoming fiercer, more extensive and more frequent. Then it came to pass.

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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

Globally, about a thousand times as much is spent on hydrocarbon exploration and extraction than on the mitigation of the climate change that results from burning fossil fuels (Mechler et al. Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43. UNISDR 2005. The 'should ratio'.