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SRSG
Natural Catastrophe Prevention and
Insurance: Market and Policy Issues
Zürich, 17 January 2019
KEYNOTE SPEECH
Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, friends and partners, good afternoon. It is a pleasure to be here today to reflect with you about how the insurance sector can play a better…
Opening remarks
SRSG Mami Mizutori
4th Meeting of the Small Island States Resilience Initiative
‘Bringing Resilience to Scale in SIDS’
09.00 Sunday 12 May 2019
Room C1 WMO 7bis Avenue de la Paix
Delegates & representatives from Small Islands Developing States from all over the wo…
4th World Reconstruction Conference: Inclusion for Resilient Recovery
Geneva, Switzerland
(5 minutes)
13 May 2019
Opening Plenary: Leave No One Behind
– Making Inclusion A Reality
Mami Mizutori, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for
Disaster Risk Reduction
Distinguished participants, ladies and gentlemen (Salutatio…
BANGKOK, 12 December 2019 - In many crisis settings, emergency response has been seen to be in a holding pattern, responding year on-year to the same needs without promoting lasting positive change in people’s lives. Yet humanitarian needs are expected to grow in the coming years as climate change is causing an increase in the intensity and frequency of…
BANGKOK, 19 November 2019 - In the face of growing disaster losses and risk in the Asia-Pacific region, government disaster risk management agencies, international organizations, and civil society groups met in the Australian city of Brisbane last week, to agree on priorities for accelerating action for reducing the risk of disasters.
On 12 and 13 No…
BANGKOK, 12 October 2019 – As one of the first countries in the region to mark the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Government of Thailand took advantage of the occasion to highlight how it is working with partners to build the resilience of its infrastructure.
In its 30th year of celebration, this year's International Day for Disaste…
DELHI, 7 October, 2019 - It’s comfortable, affordable and carries 2.5 million passengers every day relieving to some degree the pollution and traffic congestion which is the bane of the city’s life.
The Delhi Metro as a stand-alone asset is an example of how to build to last when it comes to quality resilient infrastructure in the heart of one of the w…
BANGKOK, 6 September 2019 – Integrated approaches that synergize climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction are key to building resilience. This was the resounding takeaway message at the Asia-Pacific Climate Week, which concluded on 6 September 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand. The outcome document of the Climate Week further noted that “a fundamen…
DUSHANBE, 21 August, 2019 - The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) is to implement a €3.7 million project to strengthen urban resilience in five capital cities across Central Asia and support implementation of the global plan to reduce disaster losses, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
The Special Representative of the Secret…
POTENZA, 16 July, 2019 – Representatives from ten local municipalities in Tunisia and Mauritania are taking part in the “City-to-City Technical Exchange Workshop on Urban and Territorial Resilience” hosted by the province of Potenza, Italy.
The joint activity is part of the “Enhancing Community Resilience and Human Security of Vulnerable C…
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…
JAKARTA, 29 May 2019 – Following the deaths or disappearances of over 4,600 people last year in 2,426 recorded disaster events, Indonesia is stepping up efforts to improve disaster risk management. Indonesia straddles the so-called “Ring of Fire” in the Pacific Ocean making it vulnerable to earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions.
The countr…
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…
GENEVA/ BRUSSELS, 8 May 2019 – The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and KLP, Norway's largest pension company, announced today a partnership to geo-tag financial investments against vulnerability to disaster and climate risk.
The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mami Mizutori, said: “This is a…
BANGKOK, 9 April 2019 - To save lives, countries must customize how messages from their early warning systems reach at-risk populations.
This was the key takeaway from the Asia Pacific Forum for Sustainable Development side event on improving the “downstream” aspects of early warning systems.
This session was organized by the UN Office for Disaster Ri…