A global initiative to ensure that everyone on Earth is protected by early warnings by 2027 is being fast-tracked into action on the ground.
World Meteorological Organization
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
International Telecommunication Union
I welcome the Synthesis Report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, who have been a leading voice on the danger posed by the runaway climate crisis.
UNDRR participated in the LDC5 conference, hosted by Qatar on 5-9 March 2023, to emphasize the centrality of disaster risk reduction to the resilience and development of LDCs.
The 8th anniversary of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 comes at a time of rapidly increasing global risks, fragility, and disaster losses.
Frontline health and disaster management professionals and academics from 8 countries have made a series of recommendations to strengthen public health systems in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic and other potential health emergencies
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Office in Incheon for Northeast Asia and Global Education and Training Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction
Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030)
World Health Organization
Baylor University
Hiroshima University
Cities that understand their climate risk are in a better position to manage it. MCR2030 service provider DHI relates how it is supporting the Czech city of Brno and its surrounding area to manage drought risk
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Office in Incheon for Northeast Asia and Global Education and Training Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Europe & Central Asia
Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030)
DHI Group
UNDRR gathered inter-governmental bodies, academia, practitioners, and scientists on 8 March 2023 to establish and launch the Africa Network of Centres of Excellence for Disaster Risk Reduction (NoE).
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Africa
The competition aimed to demonstrate that data is not just for experts and scientists but should be available for local communities on the front line of disasters to understand and act accordingly.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
Uruguay - government
Held in Punta del Este, Uruguay, more than 1,000 people attended the first in-person RP forum since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, with an additional 2,000 people following events virtually.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
Uruguay - government
In the declaration, ministers and officials acknowledged that disasters are socially constructed and disaster risk reduction is crucial for sustainable development and climate change adaptation.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
Uruguay - government