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While attending the 2021 European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction, European Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarčič, emphasised the centrality of investment in prevention and preparedness for better confronting a future risk landscape of more frequent and extreme disasters.
Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarčič, is today joining former Commissioner and current Minister for the Climate Crisis and Civil Protection of Greece, Christos Stylianides, for the opening session of the ‘European Civil Protection Mechanism Lessons Learned' workshop on forest fires.
Responding immediately to an appeal, the European Commission has allocated €200,000 in humanitarian funding to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).
The European Commission has allocated emergency humanitarian funding of €2 million for those affected by recent unprecedented floods in South Sudan.
The European Union is marking the 20th anniversary of its EU Civil Protection Mechanism tomorrow which has been activated more than 500 times to coordinate assistance people affected by natural hazards and other crises in Europe and worldwide.
Another EU Humanitarian Air Bridge flight has delivered over 28 tonnes of life-saving medical cargo to Kabul to address the dire humanitarian situation in Afghanistan.
Via the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, 1,075 packages of different intensive care medicines have been offered by Austria.
The European Commission has announced an additional €3.5 million in humanitarian aid to support vulnerable people affected by the conflict in eastern Ukraine.