UNDRR News

The Resilient Housing in a Changing Risk Landscape roundtable brought together city leaders, governments and international partners in Geneva to explore how climate change and housing affordability are driving disaster risk.

More than 60 representatives from local and national governments, European institutions, academia, civil society, the private sector, and United Nations agencies gathered in Geneva to confront a growing risk: extreme heat.

UNDRR's Regional Office for Arab States convened National Focal Points to introduce a new tool for assessing and strengthening the resilience of interconnected critical infrastructure across the region.

Cuba is strengthening DRR through anticipatory action, risk-informed planning and inclusive Cooperation Frameworks that address climate hazards and social vulnerabilities.

As climate change, rapid urbanization, and environmental pressures reshape Egypt's risk landscape, strengthening resilience has become increasingly important for safeguarding development gains, public investments, and sustainable economic growth.

In more than a century of operation, the authorities that manage the Panama Canal have accumulated some valuable lessons in risk governance that are relevant to other major infrastructure systems – and to disaster risk reduction more broadly.

Extreme heat exposes the deep structural interdependence between water and energy systems, while also revealing the limits of traditional sector-based risk management.

Digital technologies have revolutionized how we live, connect, and work, yet our growing reliance on these systems has created risks that often go unnoticed.

In his three decades of responding to catastrophic events around the world, Kamal Kishore, head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, often observed a curious human tendency to overlook the invisible foundations of our safety.

From extreme heat and floods to earthquakes and cyclones, a wealth of examples collected on PreventionWeb offer clear evidence that disaster risk reduction delivers tangible results.