Sentences with phrase «developing global disasters»

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Many, although not all, environmentalists called the agreement a disaster; speaking to a crowd of journalists shortly after the announcement, Lumumba Stanislaus Di - Aping, chief negotiator for the G77 group of developing countries, called the deal a «gross violation» of the UN process that would do little to curb global warming.

As the effects of global warming become more evident, disaster planners and community activists are beginning to acknowledge that class disparities will come with a changing climate here in the United States, just as it will in developing countries.

«A global disaster,» predicts another, contemplating what could happen if malaria parasites worldwide developed resistance against the new artemisinin - based combination therapies (ACTs) that have become the gold standard.

An important new field of research developed as scientists turned from predicting future impacts to showing how global warming was harming people right now, as seen in both global statistics and analyses of individual disasters.

It is our (Global North) responsibility to facilitate clean development of developing countries and further push for an equitable and ambitious agreement which is necessary to save this planet from catastrophic climate disasters.

«Not only is the scientific basis of global warming increasingly uncertain, but Kyoto will also ultimately prove to be an economic disaster for Europe — and the developing world,»

To extend the reach of and scope of our World Weather Attribution project we are engaging in a new project with CDKN: Raising Risk Awareness — Using climate science to inform post disaster Policy & practice in developing countries Today we understand the impact of human activities on global mean temperature very well; however, high - impact -LSB-...]

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UNISDR also disseminates analysis and climate risk information through biennial Global Assessment Reports, including risk modelling based on disaster loss data to develop probabilistic estimations of future risk in vulnerable countries.

During the first Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction held in June 2007, the Working Group agreed on three priority areas: gathering and sharing good practices in climate risk - reduction; providing policy guidance to UNFCCC processes on the post-2012 climate change regime; and developing methods for reducing the carbon footprint of disaster risk reduction actDisaster Risk Reduction held in June 2007, the Working Group agreed on three priority areas: gathering and sharing good practices in climate risk - reduction; providing policy guidance to UNFCCC processes on the post-2012 climate change regime; and developing methods for reducing the carbon footprint of disaster risk reduction actdisaster risk reduction activities.

(12) the establishment of such a vehicle fleet and distribution system would provide a large market that would mobilize private resources to substantially advance the technology and expand the production of alcohol fuels in the United States and abroad; (13) the United States has an urgent national security interest to develop alcohol fuels technology, production, and distribution systems as rapidly as possible; (14) new cars sold in the United States that are equipped with an internal combustion engine should allow for fuel competition by being flexible fuel vehicles, and new diesel cars should be capable of operating on biodiesel; and (15) such an open fuel standard would help to protect the United States economy from high and volatile oil prices and from the threats caused by global instability, terrorism, and natural disaster.

Whilst we have not found any evidence that normalized insured damage has trended upward at the global level, for developed countries and independently of the type of disaster looked at, our detection of an upward trend in insured losses from non-geophysical disasters and certain specific disaster sub-types in the US, the biggest insurance market in the world, and in West Germany represents a finding to be taken seriously in the risk analysis undertaken by insurance and re-insurance companies.»

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The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) at the World Bank supported three EERI initiatives from 2011 - 2014, including: Learning from Earthquakes (LFE), 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: Knowledge Notes, and the EERI Housner Fellows Program, to specifically include Fellows from developing countries.

Developed process to transition all Disaster Recovery work performed by employees to a global team of contractors, which performs all steps in the case of an actual Disaster or test exercise.

• Coordinated effort between Development, QA, Production, DR, System, DBA, Production - support, Network Administration, Applications group and vendors for project completion ahead of schedule under budget • Incorporated new technologies with legacy systems to improve performance and reduce cost • Experienced in incorporating leading open source tools: nagios, mysql, tomcat, apache, wikis, etc. • Performed broad range of UNIX Systems, Net - Working and SAN Administration tasks for large financial and networking clients such as HSBC Bank USA, Deutsche Bank, Citi Group, ISO.com, GE Corporate Treasury, Globeop Financial Services, LLC., Sothebys.com, Church Pension Group, and Verizon Partners Solutions • Provided project leadership for managing technical resources, client / server issues, vendors, senior management reviews and hands - on technical expertise • Designed and deployed iPlanet Web / Directory server Architecture for the purpose of authentication and Widows 2000 active Directory compatibility • Prepared estimates and diagrams for the new secured Development Environment comprised of Cisco routers, local directors, hubs, Sun servers, firewalls for deployment, staging and production • Developed one to one disaster recovery using Bourne Shell scripting for Reuters» Kondor 3.0 on Solaris 8 • Minimized website down time through careful monitoring of Sotheby's Web Vision to Amazon by using FTP servers to manage high volume uploads which optimized online trading functionalities • Directed installation, configuration, and security of multiple online global auction sites • Automated operations, disk space monitoring, and backups using Bourne and Korn Shell scripting • Developed standard operating procedure for IP multi-pathing, Emulex LPFC, HBAs, EMC Power path, Navisphere, and installed JASS on new built servers

General Electric (Stamford, CT) 2007 — 2008 Corporate Consultant — Infrastructure Systems & Network • Designed, developed, and engineered GE Treasury system's development, QA, Production, and DR environment • Hardware: Sun Fire V220, V480, V880, V1290, V6140, V6800, V6920; Sun Enterprise T2000, T5120 (Solaris 10: LDOMS, ZFS, RAID, Zoans, Containers), E10K, E15K, E25, M4000, M8000, M9000; HP ProLiant with Linux 5.0 (EMC and 3 PAR SAN) • Built servers from racking, cabling (Ethernet / fiber), connecting to network, setting serial connection to Avocent ports, and setting up server to the network through DNS • Performed massive installation of Solaris servers using both Jumpstart and Blade Logic and Red Hat using both PXE boot and BladeLogic servers to global distributed network of more than 6000 servers • Installed and configured Solaris 10 OS, recommended patches, hardening software, LDOMS, ZFS, and Container on Sun server • Installed and configured Emulex LPFC, EMC Power path, Navisphere, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Volume Replicator, and Veritas Net Backup in heterogeneous environment • Partitioned and mirrored disks using Solaris LVM, disk suites, Veritas VxVM, mirrored root file system and set up alternate boot device and dump device • Installed application software for ITG, IDM, and Tibco etc. • Created and adjusted Oracle projects on oracle 9i and 10g • Configured operating systems, LDOMS, ZFS, RAID, network Multi Pathing, Cisco Switch 6309, Brocade Switch, EMC DS41000 fiber switch, EMC, 3 PAR and HITACHI SAN, DNS, NIS, NIS plus, LDAP • Created LUNs for EMC, 3 PAR, HITACHI SAN and set up RAIDS • Created zoning of Cisco 6309 switch • Provided connectivity of Ethernet ports and fiber channel by patching Ethernet ports from server panel to switch, and by patching fiber from server to Brocade switch then to EMC DS41000 switch through Cisco switch6300, 6309, Big IP • Performed alternate boot testing, crush dump testing and cluster testing • Vendor liaison for Cisco, HP, IBM, EMC, Symantec, Oracle Sun, and Red hat Linux resolving hardware and software issues • Scheduled changes and upgrades communicating with business owners and support team • Architected Disaster Recovery System conducted testing and resetting the systems as needed • Performed zoning and provisioning configured EMC / Power path LUNs on UNIX servers upon client's request • Resolved issues with NIS, NIS +, DNS, VxVM and VCS among other SA tasks • Created network topology of the internet and intranet security environment using Visio 7.5

• Installed, configured, and managed multiple web sites supporting global e-commerce and e-business credit in technical environments comprised of Solaris 8 - 10 (LDOMS, ZFS, RAID, ZONES, CONTAINERS), Aix 6.1 - 7.1, Linux 4.0 - 5.5, Web Sphere MQ, Apache, Jboss, ATG, DB2, Oracle, MySQL and VMware • Optimized data security through close cooperation between Network Administration, Unix System Administration, NT Administration, DBA, and Backup and Recovery Administration teams • Installed Emulex LPFc, EMC Power path, Navisphere, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas cluster server, Veritas File system, Veritas Net Backup etc. and archived original configuration • Utilized expertise in managing and performance tuning major RDBMS Oracle / Sybase / SQL / Informix / DB2 / ATG / SAP • Built and configured IBM, HP and Sun servers, EMC, TSM and Sun SAN • Architected Disaster Recovery System, conducted testing, observed fail errors, and reset the systems • Compiled opensource applications and packages as necessary for the source of both Solaris and RPM packages • Installed and configured Nagios, Cacti and MRTG graphing tool to monitor and visualize servers and network devices • Managed Send Mail, SFTP, FTP, HTTP, SSL, SSH, DHCP, DNS, NIS, NIS +, DHCP, LDAP, Apache, Tomcat, Web Sphere, BMC Patrol, HP Open View, and Nagios • Coordinated efforts among Development, QA, Production, DR, Systems, DBA, Production, Support, Network Administration, and Applications groups for project completion ahead of schedule and under budget • Planned and developed projects, performed user acceptance tests, and applied patches to fix bugs • Served as liaison with vendors multiple vendors including Cisco, EMC, HP, IBM, Red Hat Linux, Oracle, Sun, and Symantec resolving hardware and software issues in a timely and professional manner

Globeop Financial Services, LLC (Harrison, NY) 2005 — 2007 Manager Enterprise Infrastructures Group • Designed and implemented disaster recovery system for Reuiter's Kondor 3.0 on Solaris 10 and Sybase 12.0 — 15.0 • Installed, configured, and managed Reuiter's Kondor 3.0; Solaris 10 (LDOMS, ZFS, RAID, ZOANS, CONTAINERS); AIX 4.3 - 5.3, Red Hat Enterprise — RHEL 3.0 — 4.0, Sybase 12.0 — 15.0, Oracle 10g, MYSQL 2.7.1, Sun One Directory Server (LDAP), SUN IDM, Solstice Disk Suite, Sun Cluster 3.0 - 3.2, Veritas Storage Foundation 4.1 — 5.0, Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas NetBackup 5.0 — 7.0, Storage Array A1000 — A3500, EMC SAN, HITACHI SAN, 3 PAR, Brocade switch 40K, Cisco switch 6309, SSH, SSL, RSA encryption, Emulex LPFC, NaviSphere, EMC, and Power path • Automated processes utilizing shell scripts (Bourne, Korn, C Shell, Bash, AWK, SED and Perl) • Strong technical expertise in all major server technologies (SUN / HP / IBM / Linux / Microsoft) experiment in managing mission critical, low latency, high availability and clustered IT systems and familiar with FIX protocol • Performed massive installation of Solaris servers using both Jumpstart and Blade Logic and Red Hat using both PXE boot and BladeLogic servers to global distributed network of more than 2500 servers • Conducted disaster recovery tests • Managed and supervised four technicians ensuring continuity of service and efficient operations • Coordinated effort among Development, System, Networking, Application Support, Backup and recovery team to ensure maximum up time and effective issue resolution • Planned & developed projects, performed user acceptance tests, and applied patches to repair bugs • Developed shell scripts for Bourne shell, Korn shell, C Shell, AWK, PL / SQL and PERL • Managed DNS, NIS, NIS +, LDAP, jump start, Send Mail, SFTP, FTP, HTTP, SSL, SSH, Telnet and HP Open View • Coordinated effort between Development, QA, Production, DR, Systems, DBA, Production Support and Network Administration, Applications group for project completion ahead of time and under budget • Managed DNS, NIS, NIS +, DHCP, LDAP, SFTP, jumpstart, Apache, Tomcat, Websphrer and HP Odeveloped projects, performed user acceptance tests, and applied patches to repair bugs • Developed shell scripts for Bourne shell, Korn shell, C Shell, AWK, PL / SQL and PERL • Managed DNS, NIS, NIS +, LDAP, jump start, Send Mail, SFTP, FTP, HTTP, SSL, SSH, Telnet and HP Open View • Coordinated effort between Development, QA, Production, DR, Systems, DBA, Production Support and Network Administration, Applications group for project completion ahead of time and under budget • Managed DNS, NIS, NIS +, DHCP, LDAP, SFTP, jumpstart, Apache, Tomcat, Websphrer and HP ODeveloped shell scripts for Bourne shell, Korn shell, C Shell, AWK, PL / SQL and PERL • Managed DNS, NIS, NIS +, LDAP, jump start, Send Mail, SFTP, FTP, HTTP, SSL, SSH, Telnet and HP Open View • Coordinated effort between Development, QA, Production, DR, Systems, DBA, Production Support and Network Administration, Applications group for project completion ahead of time and under budget • Managed DNS, NIS, NIS +, DHCP, LDAP, SFTP, jumpstart, Apache, Tomcat, Websphrer and HP Open View.