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The Caribbean’s fragile economy is being battered by the pandemic that is keeping tourists from its tropical beaches and leaving heavily-indebted countries ill-prepared to cope with violent hurricanes and other emergencies, say experts.  Gnawing away at the d…
On 15 April, Member States gathered virtually to adopt the Outcome Document of the 2021 Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Forum on Financing for Development. This year’s outcome document provides indispensable intergovernmental policy guidance to countries on financing for disaster risk reduction and risk-informed investing. For the first time at t…
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Geneva - UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction Mami Mizutori has proposed the idea of a “net resilience gain” to match the “net zero” approach to greenhouse gas emissions. The idea of “net resilience gain” would mimic the “net-zero” approach of not adding greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, by taking environme…
Disaster risk reduction was featured prominently at the annual conference of the Boao Forum for Asia, highlighting the increasing centrality of risk reduction to economic growth and the need to increase international cooperation around its goals. The Boao Forum conference, which ran from 18 to 21 April in the Chinese town of Boao, is often described a…
Register Here Time Time: 09:00 London | 10:00 Geneva | 11:00 Cairo | 12:00 Nairobi | 16:00 Bangkok | 17:00 Beijing | 18:00 Incheon Duration: 2 hours Language: English Event Description Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) has joined the programme Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030), a 10-year long initiative to strengthen the resilience of c…

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