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Displaying 45 of about 67 resultsPARIS, 10 December 2015 – Home to the Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo and other priceless masterpieces, the world-famous Louvre Museum is all too aware of the need to fend off natural hazards.
As negotiators at the COP21 summit in Paris fine-tune an international agreement on curbing climate change and mitigating its impact, the team at the museum are bus…
WONOGIRI, Indonesia, 3 December 2015 –Thirty-five cities and districts in one of the world’s most disaster-exposed countries, Indonesia, have come together to declare their commitment to reduce disaster risk following months of devastating forest fires which have released huge quantities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
As global leaders meet i…
GENEVA, 18 August 2015 – UNISDR has added new momentum to the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, a 15-year international plan to curb deaths and economic damage caused by natural and man-made hazards.
The 'Words into Action' process, launched today, will gather experts from around the globe to shape by the end of 2016 a…
MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina, 9 July 2015 – Argentina has rolled out a new plan to ensure that the interests of people with disabilities are part of its efforts to tackle disaster risk, an inclusive approach that reflects the goals of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
The “Inclusive Plan for Emergency and/or Disaster Situations” (PISEC), wh…
ROME, 3 July, 2015 – The former leader of the Italian Civil Protection Department was today named a Disaster Risk Reduction Champion by UNISDR in recognition of his tireless efforts to deal with the threats posed by hazards such as the devastating Abruzzo earthquake of 2009.
Franco Gabrielli, who is now prefect of the Italian capital Rome, received the…
DHAKA, 19 June 2015 – Bangladesh, one of the most hazard-prone and climate-vulnerable countries in the world, is widely recognised as a leader in tackling the threat of disasters. Policymakers and practitioners in the South Asian nation are ramping up their efforts to make their country even more resilient as they move to implement the Sendai Framework…
NEW YORK, 3 MARCH 2015 - The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction has designated the City of Hoboken, New Jersey, USA, as a Role Model City of the Making Cities Resilient campaign for its flood risk management practices. These include plans to retain over a million gallons of stormwater runoff through green infrastructure.
Hoboken becomes…
The three day workshop aims to further develop the capacities of more than 20 local and regional government officials from 15 governorates in Tunisia on disaster risk reduction. The workshop further aims to equip them with the necessary tools on how to integrate disaster risk reduction in city planning and local development.
The workshop will be c…
La Oficina de Naciones Unidades para la reducción del riesgo de desastres, conocida por sus siglas en inglés como UNISDR (United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction) conjuntamente con el Consorcio de Seguridad y Emergencia de Lanzarote en su calidad de Socio de la Campaña de Ciudades Resilientes, tienen el placer de organizar estas Jornadas de Tr…
Under the Arab Cities Disaster Resilience Project implemented by UNDP, UNISDR and SDC, a city to city exchange was organized to expose local and national authorities to best practices on urban disaster risk reduction. In coordination with UNESCO-IHE the event took place June 1-3 and brought together the cities of Delft, Rotterdam, and Dordecht (Netherla…
Background and Rational
Over the past 20 years disasters have affected 4.4 billion people, caused USD 2 trillion of damage and killed 1.3 million people. Natural disasters affected people living in developing countries and the most vulnerable communities within those countries. Over 95 percent of people killed by natural disasters are from developing c…
STEPANAVAN, Armenia, 12 November 2015 – A global campaign that unites almost 3,000 cities dedicated to reducing urban disaster risk has sharpened its focus on Central Asia and the South Caucasus thanks to a regional role model.
The move marks a key step in the development of Making Cities Resilient campaign, launched by the UN in 2010. The flagship pro…
SUVA, 29 October 2015 – The Lord Mayor of Cyclone-hit Port Vila says the word ‘resilience’ now carries real meaning on the streets of the Vanuatu capital, an achievement he cites as one of the proudest of his time in office.
Weeks after Cyclone Pam devastated large parts of his city in March, Lord Mayor Ulrich Sumptoh travelled to Seoul to deliver a p…
PARIS, 7 October 2015 – Europe has begun three days’ of talks that will play a key role in driving forward its implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
The 6th Annual Meeting of the European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction, which runs until Friday, brings together experts from 28 countries within the European Union and beyo…
TBLISI, 27 July 2015 – The city of Tblisi is moving to strengthen its readiness to deal with natural and technological hazards while memories of last month’s flash flooding remain fresh.
The leadership of the Georgian capital, along with their counterparts in Gori from the eastern part of the country, have also expressed pride in applying the Sendai Fr…