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It just looks like a bomb has gone off in the center of town, the trees are shredded, there are power lines everywhere, the corrugated iron has been wrapped into strange shapes by the force of the wind. – Alice Clements of Unicef	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Our communication link is still down, we have not got any information from outside Port Vila. – Paolo Malatu	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The biggest need at the moment is shelter and food and wash kits. – Paolo Malatu	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We anticipate that (death toll) will go higher, particularly as information comes from the remote islands. We are talking about islands that are remote and really small, with none of what we would call modern infrastructure. – Colin Collett van Rooyen	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Japan will contribute to the international community with our knowledge and technology. – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Vanuatu is a very vulnerable place because of its location in the middle of the ocean, it is possible that there will be a death toll that could be high. I can't give any numbers. I think it is a well-grounded fear. – Sune Gudnitz	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We know that traditionally in the Pacific people are not that keen on leaving for evacuation centers. – Sune Gudnitz	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
National agricultural endowments need to be protected, the market has an important role to play but it shouldn't be the final arbiter of who gets food and where it comes from. – Gary Gardner	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
More and more countries depend on global markets for their food - that creates vulnerability. – Gary Gardner	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Their plantations are usually the first to be destroyed so this would have a major impact on their livelihoods. – Lesi Korovavala	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
And we don't have polar bears. – Torstein Christiansen	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Safety comes first, even before the eclipse, we need to take care of people. It's terribly cold in March and we have the challenge with polar bears. – Christin Kristoffersen	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
In terms of dealing with disaster events, we are in much, much better shape than we have ever been before, and you see that in (a) reduction of loss of life, a global framework does have an impact on what happens on the ground. – Jo Scheuer	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
A global framework does have an impact on what happens on the ground. – Jo Scheuer	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
In many countries we have seen the growth of a culture of disaster risk management which was not there before, and would not have been possible without the guidance and the guidelines contained in the Hyogo Framework for Action. – Denis McClean	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Doing otherwise means...death, means loss of livelihood. – Philippines Senator Loren Legarda	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
To end poverty, we must continue to expand our understanding of how to manage disasters and deploy this knowledge aggressively. – Jim Yong Kim	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Right now, there is massive erosion in the villages along the shoreline. Fishermen complained to us that they didn’t have enough space to moor their boats. Buildings along the shorelines are caving in, also, rice fields at the back of the villages are affected because sea water is intruding into them due to failure of coastal aquifers. The entire area coastline will be inundated if the sea level rises above 1 meter. – Rasikh Barkat	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Out of every 10 fishermen I have surveyed, 7 to 8 have been complaining of a drastic drop in their daily catch. Once this survey is completed, the government is planning to introduce aquaculture (freshwater fish farming) as a viable alternative livelihood for fishermen here. – Rajalingam Gunalan	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
These families had been shifted here 30 years ago from Kalpakkam after the government decided to build a nuclear plant there. Now they are losing their homes again because of erosion. Internal displacement is becoming a regular phenomenon. – Ramaswamy Krishnamurthy	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
My grandfather taught fishing to my father. Father taught it to me. But after the tsunami in 2004, I decided not to send my children into the sea. – Chinnadayasappan Shankar	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
A target to control overall CO2 emissions should be a mandatory target in the 13th five-year plan, to be broken down according to variations in regional and industrial development. – Wang Yi	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The poorest farmers are the ones who need access to insurance most, safety nets are needed to reduce and manage the risks from disasters. – Richard Choularton	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The number of disasters is increasing, becoming more intense and more costly, climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather, especially floods, droughts and heatwaves. – Dominique Burgeon	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

It just looks like a bomb has gone off in the center of town, the trees are shredded, there are power lines everywhere, the corrugated iron has been wrapped into strange shapes by the force of the wind.

– Alice Clements of Unicef

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Our communication link is still down, we have not got any information from outside Port Vila.

– Paolo Malatu

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The biggest need at the moment is shelter and food and wash kits.

– Paolo Malatu

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We anticipate that (death toll) will go higher, particularly as information comes from the remote islands. We are talking about islands that are remote and really small, with none of what we would call modern infrastructure.

– Colin Collett van Rooyen

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Japan will contribute to the international community with our knowledge and technology.

– Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Vanuatu is a very vulnerable place because of its location in the middle of the ocean, it is possible that there will be a death toll that could be high. I can't give any numbers. I think it is a well-grounded fear.

– Sune Gudnitz

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We know that traditionally in the Pacific people are not that keen on leaving for evacuation centers.

– Sune Gudnitz

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

National agricultural endowments need to be protected, the market has an important role to play but it shouldn't be the final arbiter of who gets food and where it comes from.

– Gary Gardner

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

More and more countries depend on global markets for their food - that creates vulnerability.

– Gary Gardner

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Their plantations are usually the first to be destroyed so this would have a major impact on their livelihoods.

– Lesi Korovavala

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

And we don't have polar bears.

– Torstein Christiansen

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Safety comes first, even before the eclipse, we need to take care of people. It's terribly cold in March and we have the challenge with polar bears.

– Christin Kristoffersen

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In terms of dealing with disaster events, we are in much, much better shape than we have ever been before, and you see that in (a) reduction of loss of life, a global framework does have an impact on what happens on the ground.

– Jo Scheuer

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

A global framework does have an impact on what happens on the ground.

– Jo Scheuer

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In many countries we have seen the growth of a culture of disaster risk management which was not there before, and would not have been possible without the guidance and the guidelines contained in the Hyogo Framework for Action.

– Denis McClean

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Doing otherwise means...death, means loss of livelihood.

– Philippines Senator Loren Legarda

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

To end poverty, we must continue to expand our understanding of how to manage disasters and deploy this knowledge aggressively.

– Jim Yong Kim

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Right now, there is massive erosion in the villages along the shoreline. Fishermen complained to us that they didn’t have enough space to moor their boats. Buildings along the shorelines are caving in, also, rice fields at the back of the villages are affected because sea water is intruding into them due to failure of coastal aquifers. The entire area coastline will be inundated if the sea level rises above 1 meter.

– Rasikh Barkat

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Out of every 10 fishermen I have surveyed, 7 to 8 have been complaining of a drastic drop in their daily catch. Once this survey is completed, the government is planning to introduce aquaculture (freshwater fish farming) as a viable alternative livelihood for fishermen here.

– Rajalingam Gunalan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

These families had been shifted here 30 years ago from Kalpakkam after the government decided to build a nuclear plant there. Now they are losing their homes again because of erosion. Internal displacement is becoming a regular phenomenon.

– Ramaswamy Krishnamurthy

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

My grandfather taught fishing to my father. Father taught it to me. But after the tsunami in 2004, I decided not to send my children into the sea.

– Chinnadayasappan Shankar

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

A target to control overall CO2 emissions should be a mandatory target in the 13th five-year plan, to be broken down according to variations in regional and industrial development.

– Wang Yi

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The poorest farmers are the ones who need access to insurance most, safety nets are needed to reduce and manage the risks from disasters.

– Richard Choularton

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The number of disasters is increasing, becoming more intense and more costly, climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather, especially floods, droughts and heatwaves.

– Dominique Burgeon

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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