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7th Steering Committee Meeting Making Cities Resilient Campaign

United Nations Human Settlements Programme - Headquarters
UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Office in Incheon for Northeast Asia and Global Education and Training Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction
Barcelona
UNISDR head, Mami Mizutori, addressing the High School Students Summit for World Tsunami Awareness Day
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Students from 48 countries mark #TsunamiDay2018

For the third year, Japan hosted a High School Students Summit to mark World Tsunami Awareness Day. UNISDR head, Mami Mizutori, urged them to become youth ambassdors for disaster risk reduction.
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Progress on the Making Cities Sustainable and Resilient Action: Issue 2

The Making Cities Sustainable and Resilient Action is a joint initiative of UNISDR, UN-Habitat and the European Commission aiming to improve the understanding of, and capacity to, address disaster risks and build resilience at the local level, including

International day for disaster risk reduction

Gobierno de Canarias
Cátedra Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres. Ciudades Resilientes
Universidad de La Laguna
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Forest fires are a major concern for European scientists working on disaster risk.
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European scientists convene on disaster risk

A new European Science and Technology Advisory Group (E-STAG) convened this week in Sofia, Bulgaria, to focus on improving disaster risk knowledge in 55 countries across Europe and Central Asia.
Tsunami survivors and campaigners Ms. Petra Nemcova (right) and Mr. Tomas Alvarez Belon (left), with Mr. Neil McFarlane of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (Photo: UNISDR)
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Tsunami survivors say risk awareness is a lifesaver

One is a Czech model-turned-activist, and the other a student who hails from Spain. Their lives changed forever on 26 December 2004, when they were caught up in the tragedy of the Indian Ocean Tsunami. Both have become tireless campaigners for disaster risk reduction.
Meteoalarm uses simple colour coding and jargon-free explanations to help the public understanding real-time weather risks (Photo: Meteoalarm)
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#IDDR2016: Europe’s Meteolarm offers life-saving alerts

Rolled out in the wake of one of the deadliest storms to strike Europe in decades, the continent-wide weather information service Meteoalarm plays a life-saving role by raising public awareness of how to curb risks, and fosters international cooperation into the bargain.
Portugal is battling wildfires both on the mainland and on the Atlantic island of Madeira pictured here.
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Wildfires rage in a changing climate

Wildfires are a growing disaster hazard in many parts of the world. We can expect to see more of them as heatwaves and drought become more frequent and intense.
Documents and publications

Update on the probabilistic modelling of natural risks at global level: Global risk model

This study presents a risk assessment carried out in Colombia, Belize and Spain with an open model that can be used by every government or user: the CAPRA (Comprehensive Approach to Probabilistic Risk Assessment) platform. This platform is open access

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Urban Risk Reduction and Resilience: Training of Trainers for Making Cities Resilient to Disasters - Lanzarote, Spain

UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Office in Incheon for Northeast Asia and Global Education and Training Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction
Gobierno de Canarias
Cabildo de Lanzarote
Lanzarote