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Displaying 5 of about 5 resultsThis report contributes to deepening our collective understanding of the potential role of DRR within the HDP nexus; a gap identified as part of the consultative processes leading up to the Mid-Term Review of the Sendai Framework. We do not focus here on the challenges and barriers to action. Drawing on an extensive review of published material as well…
The report ‘Global Food Systems - Understanding Risk, Transforming towards Resilience’ has been prepared as thematic study in support of the Midterm Review of the Sendai Framework to generate greater insights on food system risks and resilience. It provides a synthesis of the state of the evidence on risk informed sustainable food systems and includes a…
There is growing evidence that the worst-case scenario at a global scale – an existential risk – is increasingly likely and driven by technological development. The concerns of this report are biotechnology and artificial intelligence, as major drivers of accelerating change. Importantly, both existential risk and technological hazards are within the sc…
The UNDRR internal Environmental Policy outlines the guiding principles, scope, and areas of work for improving the environmental sustainability of the organization’s operations and programmes. An ambitious environmental policy with accompanying implementation mechanisms offers a blueprint for UNDRR to put into practice the principles the organization p…
This paper by the G20 Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Working Group outlines ways of increasing the application of ecosystem-based approaches to DRR. The G20 DRR Working Group aims to integrate risk reduction measures into public and private sector investment decisions and policy making to reduce existing risk, prevent the creation of new risk and, ultima…