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Displaying 8 of about 8 resultsThese educational videos are meant to summarize the key actions governments and stakeholders can take to reduce disaster displacement. The videos, available in English (Timor-Leste), Tagalog (the Philippines), and Bahasa Indonesia, are based on the Checklist on Disaster Displacement and are meant to complement the Words into Action Guidelines on Disaste…
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Date and Time
12:15 - 13:45 (Bangkok) | 17:15 - 18:45 (Suva)
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Called for by the UN General Assembly (ResolutionA/RES/75/216) the “midterm review of the implementation of the Sendai Framework (MTR SF)will assess progress in integrating disaster risk reduction into policies, programmes and investments at all levels, i…
This contributing paper explores the role and the contribution of the public and private sectors in the (re)production and accumulation of disaster risks from a disaster capitalism optic, both in the academic literature and in the policy realm. This study responds to this gap and provides a preliminary international overview of the root causes, behaviou…
Non-governmental stakeholder groups, including the private sector and scientific organizations, have significantly increased their commitments to disaster risk reduction since 2019, according to a new report released by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).
The report was launched at the second Stakeholder Forum, as part of the…
The last decade was the warmest on record, and leading organisations on climate change indicate that warmer temperatures are not a potential threat but a surety. This report considers ways in which disaster risk reduction (DRR), climate change adaptation (CCA), and related scientific communities can rise to data challenges in order to provide policymake…
For the past few weeks in the Philippines, Mr. Jerome Balinton and the humanitarian organization Save The Children have been marshalling resources in preparation for what they expected to be a major typhoon.
“Even before our Philippines State Weather Bureau issued a tropical cyclone advisory, internally we already sent out an alert to the senior manage…
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Date and Time
Monday 4 April 2022
12:30 - 14:00 (New Delhi) | 14:00 - 15:30 (Bangkok) | 17:00 - 18:30 (Sydney) | 19:00 - 20:30 (Suva)
Overview
The Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability has highlighted the threat of heat waves across Asia and the Pacific, as a res…
Registration for the much-anticipated Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (APMCDRR) 2022 is now open.
Convened by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), the APMCDRR will be hosted by the Australian Government in Brisbane, from 19 to 22 September 2022, under the theme of ‘From Crisis to Resilience: Tran…