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The UN disaster risk reduction chief today urged Asian and European Parliamentarians to work towards a new framework for action on disaster risk reduction that will protect more people and their assets from disasters as the current framework will end in 2015. The Hyogo Framework for Action -- Building the Resilience of Communities and Nations to Disasters came into force in 2005 for a period of 10 years.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
There are strong links between climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) across several European countries according to the results of a survey presented by a Working Group on Climate Change Adaptation, chaired by Norway, at the European Forum on Disaster Risk Reduction in Croatia this week.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Europe & Central Asia
Details of the first-ever peer review of a country implementing the world's first agreement on disaster risk reduction, the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA), were presented today on the final day of the European Forum on Disaster Risk Reduction in Croatia.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Europe & Central Asia
Participants of the 2012 European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction.
UNISDR, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, is implementing a key recommendation on National Platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction from the Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, "to further review how they can best support domestic decision-making and international cooperation."
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
A new report by UN-Habitat links the world's future prosperity to the ability of cities to reduce risk and build resilience to adverse forces of nature.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Hans Sy (right), President of SM Prime Holdings, receives an invitation by UNISDR Private Sector Advisory Group (PSAG) member Sandra Wu, President and CEO of Kokusai Kogyo Holdings, to join the PSAG. (Photo / Emmanuel M. de Guzman)
Some of Asia's most influential business leaders today agreed to adopt Business Continuity Management (BCM) as a first step towards safeguarding their businesses against disasters.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) launches the 2012 MDG Gap Task Force Report.
UNISDR chief, Margareta Wahlström, today welcomed the focus on the importance of systematic recording of disaster losses and impacts contained in the 2012 MDG Gap Task Force Report launched by the Secretary-General yesterday.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Jerry Velasquez, Head of UNISDR for Asia and the Pacific, at the 4th session of the Pacific Platform for Disaster Risk Management in Noumea, New Caledonia.
UNISDR Chief, Margareta Wahlström, today welcomed a major policy decision by Pacific Island States to help formulate a new international framework on disaster risk reduction to replace the current Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) in 2015.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Sub-Regional Office for the Pacific
Photo / Neil Palmer (CIAT)
The top UN disaster risk reduction official on Friday urged African governments to acknowledge risk reduction as the first line of defense against the impacts of climate change.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Africa
Dr Jimmie Rodgers, Director-General of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC).
The 4th Session of the Pacific Platform for Disaster Risk Management opened today with a strong call for Pacific Island Countries and Territories, and donors to address the challenges of climate change in a smarter way.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Sub-Regional Office for the Pacific

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