Bonn Technical Forum 2025 - Regional Pathways for Comprehensive Risk Management for Integrated Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Action

Registration upon invitation only

Background

Climate change is increasing the frequency, severity, and complexity of hazards, compounding existing vulnerabilities, and threatening development gains. The forthcoming Global Synthesis Report on Comprehensive Risk Management (CRM) underscores that addressing these risks requires a holistic, systemic approach that integrates disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate action to effectively avert, minimize, and address loss and damage. Such an approach must span short-, medium-, and long-term horizons, tackle both extreme events and slow-onset processes, and leverage the coherence among global frameworks such as the Sendai Framework, the Paris Agreement, and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development for national and local implementation.

Regional intergovernmental organizations play a pivotal role in translating these global commitments into actionable strategies for their member countries. By providing shared policy frameworks, fostering knowledge exchange, and coordinating regional initiatives, they enable coherence and synergies across DRR and climate agendas. The global and regional CRM reports (see key resrouces at the end of the document) find that while conceptual integration of resilience has advanced, institutional and financial coherence-and thus the implementation of resilience-building activities-remains limited.

Objective and outcomes

Recognizing the pivotal role of regional intergovernmental organizations in advancing coherence, the workshop will convene regional intergovernmental organizations and partners to deepen the understanding of pathways to coherence and partnership among regional intergovernmental bodies responsible for DRR and climate action. It will focus on raising awareness of the importance of promoting a comprehensive risk management approach for coherence at regional and national levels, while supporting the implementation of actions across joint implementation areas for a holistic approach to building climate and disaster resilience for sustainable development. The workshop will be held back-to-back with another event of the Bonn Technical Forum on Disaster Tracking Systems for Losses and Damages to strengthen understanding and promotion of integrated CRM approaches for averting, minimizing and addressing losses and damages.

The expected outcomes of the workshop will be as follows:

• Shared Regional Understanding of CRM: Build a shared understanding of integrated implementation of DRR and climate action at the regional level and how regional intergovernmental organizations can drive synergies and alignment between DRR and climate action at regional and national levels
• Identification of Gaps and Opportunities for Action: Identify key gaps, challenges, and opportunities for regional intergovernmental organizations to better enable integrated resilience-building activities in member states using a CRM approach, with concrete next steps.
• Exchange of Good Practices and Strengthen Regional Collaboration: Facilitate peer exchange on progress, innovations, and good practices across regions in applying integrated approaches and promoting mechanisms for ongoing peer learning.
• Prioritize areas for technical assistance and capacity building for regional intergovernmental organizations, particularly on CRM approaches for averting, minimizing, and addressing loss and damage, including financing and implementation of integrated approaches.
• Strengthen regional collaboration mechanisms: to promote coherence between DRR and climate action, including through joint implementation areas such as tracking losses and damages, risk assessments, early warning systems and coordinated financing strategies.

Participating IGOs who attend the Bonn Technical Forum on disaster tracking systems will also discuss roles of regional intergovernmental organizations in supporting member states to leverage disaster data, including the use of DELTA Resilience (Disaster and hazardous Events Losses and damages Tracking and Analysis).

Target audience

Senior official representatives of regional intergovernmental organizations responsible for supporting member states in the design, implementation, and monitoring of DRR and/or climate action governance mechanisms (e.g. National DRR Strategies, National Adaptation Plans, and national data frameworks for loss and damage).

Venue and timing

The workshop will be held at the UN Campus in Bonn, Germany from Tuesday 2 to Wednesday 3 December 2025. Participants are also invited to join the Bonn Technical Forum from Thursday 4 to Friday 5 December 2025 for a deep dive into the updated disaster tracking system for losses and damages (DELTA Resilience).

Tentative agenda

The workshop will be held on 2-3 December, followed by a two-day workshop dedicated to the updated disaster tracking system for losses and damages (DELTA Resilience) on 4-5 December. A detailed agenda will be shared with invited participants separately.

Key resources and background information

Comprehensive Disaster and Climate Risk Management (CRM)

Event update - Webstory 

General resources and policy landscape analysis:

• Participants are encouraged to complete the Thought Leadership Course - Synergizing Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation before the workshop [2 hours, self-based course with certification]
• Policy landscape analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Policy landscape analysis in the Caribbean
• Policy landscape analysis in Europe and Central Asia

Guidelines:

• Promoting synergy and alignment: between climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in the context of National Adaptation Plans
• Technical guidance on comprehensive risk assessment and planning in the context of climate change
• Technical guidance on the application of climate information for comprehensive risk management
• Nature-based solutions for comprehensive disaster and climate risk management

Policy and issue briefs:

• Policy Brief: Disaster risk reduction and climate change
• Policy brief: loss and damage
• Issue brief: Accelerating comprehensive risk management in agrifood systems
• Policy brief: Nature for Resilience

*Photo credit of the group photo (see attachments): UNCCD 2025/Pape Mamadou Camara