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Displaying 9 of about 9 resultsUNISDR and WMO started in May 2012 the joint implementation of the project 'Building resilience to disasters in the Western Balkans and Turkey'. The project is supported by the European Commission DG Enlargement through the Instrument for Pre-Accession (IPA). The beneficiaries are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of…
From July 2-6, 2012, the Understanding Risk (UR) Community will convene in Cape Town, South Africa for the biennial UR Forum.
The 2012 theme is "Mapping Global Risk," which highlights the essential role of spatial hazard, exposure and vulnerability data in understanding risk and making informed decisions to build resilience.
The Forum will consist of:…
Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), through the Climate Services Centre, is organizing the Fifteenth Southern Africa Region Climate Outlook Forum (SARCOF-15). This will be followed by a Disaster Risk Reduction stakeholders training workshop, 29-30 August 2011.
The main objective of SARCOF-15 is to develop a consensus climate outlook for peri…
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…
Context
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 heralds a shift from managing disasters to managing risks. It provides an opportunity to make disaster risk reduction integral to sustainable development. For this to happen, sound scientific research and evidence-based knowledge is needed. This will enable better policymaking that addr…
UNISDR and WMO started in May 2012 the joint implementation of the project 'Building resilience to disasters in the Western Balkans and Turkey'. The project is supported by the European Commission DG Enlargement through the Instrument for Pre-Accession (IPA). The beneficiaries are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of…
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…
Open informal session of the United Nations Inter-Agency Meeting on Outer Space Activities
Towards the fourth session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction
This event is an interactive forum for Governments, national authorities, United Nations system entities, private sector and civil society to examine how space-based-technology applica…
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Time
16:00 - 17:30 CEST, Geneva | 10:00-11:30 EDT, New York | 22:00-23:30 CST, Beijing
Duration
90 minutes (including 15 minutes networking)
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AI-powered drones are powerful tools in disaster response. Recent advances in AI-enabled computer vision, robotics, and swarm technologies have further pushed the boundaries of drone appli…