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The risks posed by population development, environmental and climate change are increasing. Complex technical systems and infrastructure are additional risk factors. The risks posed by population development, environmental and climate change are increasing. Complex technical systems and in…
29 June 2021 – The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), Regional Office for Arab States (ROAS), in collaboration with the Arab Towns Organization, organized a webinar titled “Arab Cities towards Resilience: Introduction to Making Cities Resilient 2030 Program,” with the participation of the Regional Council of Nouakchott, Dubai Pol…
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The building and construction sector globally represents a huge contribution to climate change and environmental issues. The sector is responsible for close to 40% of energy-related carbon emissions, plus 40% of virgin raw material use. Decarbonising, restoring our natural environment and enhancing…
Excellencies, distinguished delegates,
It is not a new story, but the COVID-19 pandemic has underlined in a vivid way that disasters put the human rights of vulnerable groups, and in particular in the case of this pandemic, older persons at serious risk.
The COVID-19 pandemic is a public health crisis that has become an economic and social crisis as w…
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Date: 15 June 2021 (Tuesday)
Time: 8:00 Rio de Janeiro | 13:00 Barcelona/Brussels | 14:00 Nairobi | 20:00 Incheon
Duration: 45 minutes
Language: English, with simultaneous interpretation into French
Event Description
The project lab is part of the Eur…
ASHGABAT – On 22 April, the Government of Turkmenistan and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), with the support of the European Union, convened key stakeholder organisations on disaster risk reduction (DRR). The participants met to establish a National Platform for DRR marking an important step forward in national coordin…
Gender inequality Gender inequality, coupled with the climate and environment crises, is the greatest sustainable development challenge of the present time.
In the past twenty years, climate-related disasters have almost doubled, exacerbating inequalities within and between countries. The Sendai Framework recognizes the importance of integrating…
The National UAE Private Sector Alliance for DRR (ARISE UAE) participated in the Arab Forum for Sustainable Development 2021 (AFSD-2021) in a special session for the private sector under the theme “Catalyzing Private Sector Engagement in the Decade of Action” on 30 March 2021.
The session explored a suite of powerful and practical examples within the…
Thursday, 6 May 2021
10:00-11:30
Platform: Zoom. Register here: https://undrr.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_E8W2N33cQ4iRcCQ8vmkLJg
Event is available in English.
The Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) initiative responds to the growing need to boost resilience at the local level. Crises such as COVID-19 and climate change remind us that manag…
HOST
Government of Indonesia
From Risk to Resilience: Towards Sustainable Development for All in a COVID-19 Transformed World
The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction is the main global forum to assess and discuss progress on the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. The seventh session of the Global Platf…
Event Overview
Governments are on the ‘frontline of opportunity’ in this era of Climate Emergency and a third year of the global COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, the biggest dividend in avoided future disaster losses can be reaped at the level of municipalities.
The evidence is clear: those governments, including local, that invest to better under…
The disaster risk reduction status report provides a snapshot of the state of disaster risk reduction in Samoa under the four priorities of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. It also highlights progress and challenges associated with ensuring coherence with key global frameworks and provides recommendations for strengthening dis…
The disaster risk reduction status report provides a snapshot of the state of disaster risk reduction in the Republic of Nauru under the four priorities of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. It also highlights progress and challenges associated with ensuring coherence with key global frameworks and provides recommendations for s…
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The Critical Asset Management System (CAMS) is a collaborative, open-source, and data-centric tool that helps cities to identify their critical assets and the cascading failure chains should one of them fail.
Climate change is increasing the risk of extreme weather events a…
The disaster risk reduction status report provides a snapshot of the state of disaster risk reduction in the Federated States of Micronesia under four priorities of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.
It also highlights progress and challenges associated with ensuring coherence with key global frameworks and provides recommendat…