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private sector investments
24 October 2019
Brussels, Belgium
Welcome Remarks
Ms. Mami Mizutori
Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk
Reduction and Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Commissioner Stylianides,
Dist…
While Africa remains the least urbanized continent, it has the fastest rates of urbanization in the world. In Uganda, levels of urbanization in towns across the country remain relatively low, but in the capital Kampala, the population is increasing by an average of 6 per cent each year. While the resident population is only 1.5 million, it swells…
It is widely acknowledged that the frequency and intensity of natural hazards, particularly weather-related events, is being driven by climate change. The impacts of global warming and rising sea-levels are being felt increasingly in countries with low-lying coastal belts. Guayaquil, Ecuador’s biggest city, is one city that is taking measures to adapt…
A lack of ambition is not one of the challenges facing Ismailia. Situated on the west bank of the Suez Canal in Egypt, the city is locally known as “The city of beauty and enchantment” and is home to around 370,000 people.
As part of its Vision 2030, the city is embarking on several megaprojects in its construction industry, including 480km of transp…
Interview with Dr. Maha ElTahir, consultant with the Sudan Ministry of Infrastructure and Transportation
What are the greatest challenges facing your city?
The greatest challenge that we face as a city is the economic instability and migration from the conflict in Darfur. We have a lot of development plans at the moment and looking for enhanced Public…
Situated in the heart of the Ring of Fire, Indonesia ranks amongst the most disaster-prone countries in the world. Multiple hazards including flooding, landslides, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes and cyclones claim approximately 8,000 lives annually and cost the Government of Indonesia some $300 to $500 million annually in post-disaster reconstr…
Opening Remarks
SDG Summit Side-Event
Resilient Infrastructure:
Key to the Success of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
25 September 2019, 13.15 - 14.30
Conference Room A, United Nations, New York
Delivered By:
Mami Mizutori
Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk
Reduction and…
75th Session of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and
the Pacific
The United Nations Conference Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
27 May 2019
Theme: Empowering People and Ensuring Inclusiveness and Equality
Statement by:
Ms. Mami Mizutori
Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
and Special Represent…
Global Platform 2019
Risk Award speech – Mami Mizutori
17 May 2019
Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen -
It is my honour to welcome you to the 2019 RISK Award ceremony.
This award is given every two years to operational projects in the field of risk reduction and disaster management and is supported by the Munich Re Foundation.
Since the ad…
How can public broadcasters contribute to reducing disaster risk,
saving lives and fulfilling their mandate to further the public good?
SRSG
Discussion forum hosted by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
and the World Broadcasting Union
14.00- 15.40 (Session 1)- 13 May 2019
Ladies and gentlemen:
It is a great pleasure to join…
By Mami Mizutori, head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
The devastation of one of Mozambique’s largest cities, Beira, by Cyclone Idai, which claimed hundreds of lives, is stark evidence that the countries which contribute least to climate change are the ones being affected by it the most.
These last years of record global warmth have…
Lucas Hallel ASCOM/FUNAI Pataxó Indigenous people live in the village of Naõ Xohã, on the banks of the Paraopeba river damaged by the collapse of a mining dam in Brumadinho, Brazil.
By Mami Mizutori
The decision by Vale, the world’s largest manufacturer of iron ore, to decommission ten of its tailings dams in Brazil is welcome, but it will seem too…
DHAKA, 10 December, 2019 - There are probably few slum dwellers from Bangladesh at COP25 -the annual climate conference - in Madrid but women in one of Dhaka’s teeming slums spoke today of the upheaval that the impact of extreme weather and the climate emergency is having on their lives.
All ten women meeting in a tiny corrugated shed in Mollah, in the…
GENEVA, 5 December, 2019 - When a little girl in China takes the trouble to write and thank you for helping to save her life in an earthquake you must be doing something right.
The letter was written 25 years ago to the Unicef focal point for disaster risk reduction, Kirsi Madi, to let her know that when the girl was alone at home, she took cover from…
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…