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World Urban Forum - High-Level Dialogue 2: Implementing the New Urban Agenda to drive Sustainable Change

World Urban Forum High-Level Dialogue 2: Implementing the New Urban Agenda to drive Sustainable Change 10 February 2020, 9:00-12:00 Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre, UAE Mami Mizutori Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster
A family outside of their tent in the Taratara Camp, in Cabo Delgado province
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Disasters displace more people than conflict and violence

As climate change intensifies, extreme weather events, such as floods, storms, bushfires and heatwaves are forcing millions from their homes each year. In 2018, disasters displaced 17.2 million people from their homes, 90 per cent fled weather and climate
Bangladesh government Cyclone Preparedness Programme Director, Ahmadul Haque, sharing a light-hearted moment with volunteers in Cox's Bazar
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Bangladesh goes beyond cyclones

The Cyclone Preparedness Programme in Bangladesh is to undergo it's largest ever expansion since it was founded in 1972, a large recruitment drive and the inclusion of urban risk, earthquakes, floods and other hazards.
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Angola National Workshop on risk profiling for floods and droughts & Road Map to improve the availability, access and use of disaster risk information for early warning and action

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Africa
Centro Internazionale in Monitoraggio Ambientale
Luanda
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Zambia National Workshop on risk profiling for floods and droughts & Road Map to improve the availability, access and use of disaster risk information for early warning and action

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Africa
Centro Internazionale in Monitoraggio Ambientale
Lusaka
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U.R. Tanzania National Workshop on risk profiling for floods and droughts & Road Map to improve the availability, access and use of disaster risk information for early warning and action

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Africa
Centro Internazionale in Monitoraggio Ambientale
Dodoma
Statements and messages

Financial Times - Mozambique Summit -Resilient Infrastructure and Disaster Risk Reduction

Resilient Infrastructure and Disaster Risk Reduction 10 September 2019 Financial Times Summit, Maputo Remarks Ms. Mami Mizutori Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk
The Hon. Saber Chowdhury, Member of Parliament of Bangladesh, spoke on the need to increase investment in disaster prevention at the Asia-Pacific Partnership Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction, in Brisbane, Australia on 12 November.
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Bangladesh declares climate change a “planetary emergency”

Bangladesh declared climate change to be a “planetary emergency” and called on the world to work “on a war footing” to combat it and reduce its impacts.
Educational materials

I'm prepared for emergencies: friends power series 1

This first publication in the series deals with disaster preparedness and response focusing on earthquake, drought, flooding, extreme heat and drought.

"Friends Power" is a series of health education comic stories developed for children. It aims to build

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Critical Infrastructure including schools, health facilities and roads threatened by climate crisis

Climate change is contributing to increasing damage to critical infrastructure around the globe, according to a twelve-year survey of damages caused by small- and medium-scale disasters