Mozambique

San Francisco, November 2012 –  Climate change threatens to undermine hard-won human development gains and the longer the world waits to act the more costly the damages and solutions will become, UN Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Helen Clark said in the last 8^th of November.

Speaking at Stanford University in California, Helen Clark warned that without more coordinated global action to tackle climate change it will be increasingly hard to reduce poverty in all its dimensions and the costs of adaptation will also rise steeply everywhere.

Maputo, October 2012 –  The United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response -  UN-SPIDER, conducted from 8^th  to 12 of October 2012 a Technical Advisory Mission (TAM) to Mozambique upon the official request of the Mozambican Government to assess the existing use of space-based technology and information for disaster management and emergency response in the country.

Maputo, October 2012 – The United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response - UN-SPIDER, in collaboration with the Mozambique Government through the National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC), and the UNDP in Mozambique, organized a one-day workshop in Maputo on the use of space-based technology in disaster risk management.

The event was framed in the context of a seminar which aimed not only to share geospatial knowledge on  disaster risk and adaptation to climate change, but also how to access data and be able  to predict and minimize damage likely to be caused by  natural disasters.

Maputo, October of 2012 -  Switzerland announces in October the continuation of their support to the Government of Mozambique’s goal to clear all known mined areas in the country by 2014. The announcement was made in a signing ceremony between the Swiss Confederation through their Embassy in Maputo and the UNDP in Mozambique under the Third-Party Cost sharing Agreement on enhancing mechanical demining in Mozambique.