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Displaying 15 of about 16 resultsMore than 150 government representatives, members of academia and young participants from the 2019 Japan World Tsunami Awareness Day High School Summit commemorated World Tsunami Awareness Day on 5 November at the United Nations Headquarters, New York and discussed innovative solutions to reduce tsunami risks.
The Panel discussion- co-organiz…
GENEVA, 13 May, 2019 - Heads of media and UN agencies met today in Geneva to discuss how public service media and worldwide print and radio media outlets can contribute to reducing disaster risk, saving lives and fulfilling their mandate to further the public good.
“Media outlets and global agencies play a critical role in alerting, informing and educa…
BONN, 13 November, 2019: 2020 is a year of reckoning for implementation of the Sendai Framework, the global plan for reducing disaster losses.
Target (e) of the Sendai Framework's seven targets, sets a 2020 deadline for developing national and local strategies for disaster risk reduction. The same deadline applies to UN member States fin…
NEW YORK, 25 September 2019 – The UK, Japan and Bhutan announced that they have joined the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, following its launch this week by the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi.
Speaking at an event in the sidelines of the high-level meetings in New York, Prakash Javadekar, India’s Minister for Environment and Cl…
GENEVA, 18 September 2019 – The Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mami Mizutori, today called for greater ambition in the construction industry to ensure that key infrastructure is resilient to the impacts of extreme weather events which have displaced seven million people already this year.
Ms. Mizutori said: “The…
GENEVA, 17 May 2019 - The prestigious RISK Award went today to a project which pioneers floating houses in Bangladesh; houses so designed that a family of six can survive floods and still produce their own food including vegetables, chickens and fish.
The €100,000 prize sponsored by the Munich Re Foundation was accepted by Nandan Mukherjee on beha…
BRUSSELS, 4 July 2019 - The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE) and the Ministry of the Interior for Finland have joined together to develop a new stress test tool that will help countries understand and improve their ability to reduce risk of hybrid threats and casc…
GENEVA, 13 May 2019 - A rich discussion on how to better integrate science into disaster risk reduction policy highlighted the importance of creating knowledge that is reflective of the “truth on the ground” and directly benefits local communities.
The Science and Policy Forum brought together over 150 scientists and government officials as part of the…
INCHEON, 18 March 2019 – Competing priorities, changes in political leadership and insufficient capacities.
These are just some of the challenges facing cities around the world as they prepare their disaster risk reduction plans and enhance resilience to future shocks.
Representatives from twenty cities in the Making Cities Resilient Campaig…
Kobe, 25 June 2019 – The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitment (SFVC) first Synthesis and Analysis Report was launched in Geneva during the recent Global Platform. Voluntary Commitments (VCs) are made by multiple stakeholders (private sector, local governments, civil society organizations, academia, media, etc.) in support of the implementation of the S…
GENEVA, 17 May, 2019 - “If investors do not address disaster risk properly, their business performance will be directly affected,” stressed Sandra Wu, Board Member of UN Global Compact. “They have to understand that if they do not incorporate risk-informed investments, they will lose their business.”
This is the main message of the very well-attended t…
GENEVA, May 14, 2019 - The 2nd Multi Hazard Early Warning Conference closed today with a strong focus on the role that governance must play in ensuring the effectiveness of early warnings and underlined the importance of collaboration when making the switch from single hazard to multi-hazard warnings.
The challenge of doing this effectively was un…
Throughout my life I have visited many communities affected by extreme weather events and other natural hazards.
From the South Pacific to Mozambique to the Caribbean and beyond, I have seen the devastating and life-changing impact of the climate emergency on vulnerable communities.
Disasters inflict horrendous suffering and can wipe out decades of d…
GENEVA, 11 October 2019 – Climate change is contributing to increasing damage to critical infrastructure around the globe, according to a twelve-year survey of damages caused by small- and medium-scale disasters conducted by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Schools, health facilities and roads are regularly damaged by small-scale…
22 September 2019, New York – Passion and urgency may not be two of the most common words associated with events at the United Nations headquarters in New York but that is certainly what delegates and speakers brought when they convened at the Youth Climate Summit.
A day after millions of young people globally marched and rallied for urgent climate act…