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Strengthening Capacities for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilient Cities in Ningbo is co-organized by the ICLEI – Local Government for Sustainability and UNDRR ONEA-GETI, to introduce the cutting-edge knowledge, theory, tools, cases and international platforms of disaster risk reduction and resilient cities to relevant department…
Summary
As climate change gets more obvious, extreme weather conditions and disasters also become more often, like heat surge, floods, droughts, urban heats and hurricanes, all of which pose a big threat on citizens’ well beings and national stability. To better respond, cities are in urgent need to improve their ability in reacting, preventing, prepar…
The Mayors' Summit on Disaster Risk Reduction will take place back-to-back to the 2011 World Cities Scientific Development Forum (WCSDF). The Mayors’ Summit will build on the commitments expressed in the Mayors Statement on Resilient Cities which was presented at the 3rd Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in May 2011. Participant…
Forum on Disaster Risk Reduction
Associated with the Shanghai Expo 2010 'Better Cities, Better Life'
Shanghai, 28-30 July 2010
Announcement
Background
The theme of the Shanghai Expo 2010 is "Better City, Better Life," - the wish for a better living in present and future urban environments. This theme represents a central concern of the internation…
Objective
This webinar intends to mark the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2021, focusing on Northeast Asia regional cooperation for technology application for disaster risk reduction. It will profile good practices and lessons from China, Korea, and Japan to leverage frontier technologies to ensure resilience and mitigate disaste…
Introduction
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 shifts the focus from managing disasters to managing risks. Such a shift requires a better understanding of risk in all its dimensions of hazards, exposure and vulnerability - a disaster risk governance that ensures disaster risk is factored into planning and development at all lev…
Background:
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (SFDRR) was adopted at the Third UN World Conference on DRR (March 2015, Sendai, Japan), and will serve as an international guideline for DRR for the next 15 years.
At the 4th Trilateral Ministerial Meeting on Disaster Management held in October 2015, the three Parties decided to s…
Overall Objective
The Sino-Africa Seminar on Drought Risk Reduction aims to contribute to the on-going international process of building drought resilient nations and communities.
Specific Objectives
The specific objectives of the Sino-Africa Seminar on Drought Risk Reduction are to provide a forum for governments to:
Share their informatio…
The main theme of the 2011 World Cities Scientific Development Forum (WCSDF) will be to highlight development and cooperation among world cities, in promoting sustainable socio-economic development and livable human habitation, with a focus on the following thematic topics:
- Urban Planning and Design for Disaster Resilient Cities
- Disaster and Emerge…
Associated with Shanghai World Expo 2010's theme 'Better Cities, Better Life': Conference/workshop on Unity in Aid (A DEVNET forum on humanitarian emergencies, together with UNISDR and ICLEI), aims at providing for good practice and local inputs.
Purpose
The Conference aims to review the progress made and challenges faced in mainstreaming gender perspectives into disaster risk reduction. Special consideration will be given to issues related to climate change adaptation, poverty reduction and community resilience Expected Result: The Beijing Declaration for Action, which will be a set of prioriti…
The Silk Road, beginning in the Han Dynasty (207 BC-220 AD), crosses more than 70 countries and affects some 4.4 billion people (63% of the world). For centuries, the Silk Road has played an essential role in connecting the East and the West, through the exchange of the trade, science, technology and civilization. However, due to active underlying geolo…
The training is aimed at building critical mass of professionals oriented towards resilient recovery on shelter, infrastructure, web based flood risk assessment system of Hyogo Prefecture and pre-disaster recovery planning to enhance their capacity to minimize the impact of future disasters.
Objectives
- Increase participant’s knowledge and understand…
The global event was a high level panel discussion featuring representatives of countries that have suffered major disasters, and have since focused closely on protecting critical infrastructure such as health facilities and schools. The website for the World Campaign for Disaster Reduction 2008-2009: Hospitals Safe from Disasters was also launched on t…
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