The UN's emergency response plan for Syrian refugees, Oxfam said, currently lacked 75% of the funding required.

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Despite this understanding, there is still no serious emergency response plan in place.

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The firm's emergency-response plan spoke of protecting the area's walruses an easy task, since there aren't any and consulting an ecologist who had died in 2005.

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What did apply, but is not mentioned in the report, are the President's emergency declarations on the weekend before the hurricane, which activated the National Response Plan and gave FEMA full authority to coordinate the federal response in the field.

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Earlier this month, Greenpeace claimed Gazprom's oil spill response plan went out of date in July and says that - according to the Russian Ministry of Emergency - the company has not submitted or approved a new one.

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