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Mexican President Mr. Enrique Peña Nieto has reaffirmed his country’s commitment to implementing the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, a global plan to reduce disaster losses adopted last year.
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Mexico to lead global effort to reduce economic losses from disasters

Mexico, as host country, will encourage the 2017 Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction to focus on reducing economic losses from disasters, it emerged today.
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President of Mexico, Mr. Enrique Peña Nieto presenting awards at the 30th anniversary of the National System for Civil Protection
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Mexico's big switch to Sendai

The President of Mexico, Mr. Enrique Peña Nieto, today outlined his ambition for the country to become a role model in disaster risk reduction as it marks 30 years of the National System for Civil Protection.
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Ms. Indianna D. Minto-Coy (centre) from the Mona School of Business & Management, University of the West Indies, winner of the award for best disaster risk management new academic offering, is congratulated by Professor Juan Pablo Sarmiento of Florida International University (right) and Mr. Neil McFarlane of UNISDR (left) (Photo: UNISDR)
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Universities etch disaster risk into business studies

Ensuring that companies understand and act on the risks posed by natural and man-made hazards is a vital step towards reducing disaster impacts. Business education offers a tool to achieve this.
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The one-year-old Sendai Framework is the most comprehensive global disaster risk reduction to date (Photo: UNISDR)
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World salutes Sendai Framework

The international community today celebrated the first anniversary of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the world’s most comprehensive blueprint for curbing the impact of natural and man-made hazards, with 20 million people taking to social media to mark the occasion.
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Supporting today's Sendai Framework anniversary and the Global Platform announcement in Geneva (left to right) Mr. Rogelio Conde, General Director of Liaison and Regulations (NCCP), Mr. Jose Maria Tapia, General Director of DRM, (NCCP),Mr. Luis Felipe Puente, National Coordinator of Civil Protection (NCCP),
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Mexico to host 2017 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction

Representatives of UN Member States were informed today in Geneva that the 5th Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction will take place in Cancun, Mexico, in May 2017. It is held every two years and is the largest gathering of its kind. The next Global Platform will focus on implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction which was adopted on this day last year at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction.
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(Left to right): Mr. Rogelio Conde, General Director of Liaison and Regulations (NCCP), Mr. Jose Maria Tapia, General Director of DRM, (NCCP),Mr. Luis Felipe Puente, National Coordinator of Civil Protection (NCCP), Robert Glasser, head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Roberto Borge, Governor of Quintana Roo, Cancun, Amb. Jorge Lomonaco, Permanent Representative of Mexico to the UN in Geneva.
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Mexico forges ahead on Sendai implementation

Mexico is forging ahead with implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and investing heavily in resilient infrastructure. A high level delegation is visiting the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction in Geneva.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
The President of Mexico, Mr. Enrique Peña Nieto, (right) with the head of UNISDR, Ms. Margareta Wahlstrom, at the National Civil Protection Awards ceremony in Mexico City in September. (Photo: UNISDR)
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How Mexico handled Patricia

Ten days ago, the news broke that “the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere” was about to slam into the Pacific coastline of Mexico.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
from left to right, At the National Civil Protection Awards in Mexico, Sergio Almazan, Founder and President of Project Chema Tierra, President of Mexico, Enrique Pena Nieto, and head of UNISDR, Margareta Wahlstrom.
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Mexico marks 30 years of progress

GENEVA, September 21, 2015 - The head of UNISDR, Margareta Wahlström, praised Mexico for its commitment to reducing disaster losses and avoiding the creation of new risk, during talks with the government and in a speech to mark the 30th anniversary of the deadly 1985 earthquake on Saturday.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
Mexico City marks the 30th anniversary of the 1985 earthquake with the launch of a new Seismic Warning System. (Photo: UNISDR)
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Mexico’s new seismic warning system

The head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), Margareta Wahlström, will take part tomorrow in the 30th anniversary commemoration of the earthquake which struck Mexico City on September 19, 1985.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
Wreckage of the Pina Suarez Apartment Complex following the 1985 Mexico Earthquake.
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HFA ‘central’ to Mexico’s risk management

Next year’s World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Japan coincides with the lead-up to the 30th anniversary of the devastating 1985 Mexican earthquake, whose tragic consequences pushed the country into developing one of the world’s most effective disaster prevention and response systems.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean

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