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Much more needs to be done and much greater funding made available to mitigate the devastating toll of natural disasters in an age when climate change threatens to increase both their frequency and severity, according to a United Nations report released today.
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"A major scaling-up of efforts and resources is needed," he says, warning that despite increased commitment governments are still not on track to achieve the goals set in the Hyogo Framework for Action, the 10-year programme adopted in January 2005 which calls for investing heavily in disaster preparedness and strengthening the capacity of disaster-prone countries to address the risks.

Such measures range across the whole spectrum of natural disasters, from establishing early warning systems for those that can be anticipated, such as tsunamis and cyclones, to enforcing stringent building codes in earthquake-prone regions, especially for schools and hospitals. Hospital safety was the theme of this year's International Disaster Reduction Day, observed earlier this week.