UNDRR News

The National Consultation and Validation Workshop on the project “Establishing a National Climate Intelligence and Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for Climate Resilience in Mauritania.”

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.

Wildfires dominate headlines for their high price tags, but behind the insured losses are even greater invisible costs: the lasting social, health, ecological, and economic costs that shape recovery long after the flames die down and the smoke clears.

The true cost of disasters is significantly underestimated worldwide, as losses to health, livelihoods, ecosystems, and long-term development remain largely unmeasured.

Policies that integrate disaster and climate risk into fiscal frameworks, such as adaptive social protection, risk-based budgeting, and contingent financing, can dramatically cut recovery time.

As the Paris Agreement and Sendai Framework reach 10 years, their indicators highlight a shared opportunity: stronger coherence and coordination between climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction.

UNDRR supported a week of back-to-back capacity-building engagements to help national stakeholders move from risk information to actionable early warnings and anticipatory action.

One-day regional reflection meeting marking the culmination of the two-year programme, “Harnessing Synergies between Climate Change Adaptation and Risk Reduction in Migrant-Inclusive Health System Responses.”

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and the network of Corporate Chief Resilience Officers (CCRO) convened their annual in-person meeting on 1–2 December, hosted by Sky at its London headquarters.

Yemen is taking important steps to strengthen national resilience by advancing the National Implementation Plan for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation (2026–2030).