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B.C.’s New Bill 31 – Emergency and Disaster Management Act

CCEM Strategies

A deliberate focus on modernization first emerged five years ago in 2018, when the Province adopted the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. Since then, the Province has been continually responding to large-scale disasters, including the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 2021 and 2023 floods and wildfires. In 2019, B.C.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

everbridge

Across the globe, both public and private sectors are more concerned than ever about addressing climate change and its associated risks. β€œIn In the period 2000 to 2019, there were 7,348 major recorded disaster events claiming 1.23 ACT – Take quick and decisive action to mitigate or eliminate the impact of a threat.