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Ms. Mami Mizutori
Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. Thank you for the opportunity to say a few words about the role that the investment sector can play in promoting sustainable economic development and resilient communities.
Building resilience to disasters is a topic which is at the top…
SRSG: Science and Policy Forum Opening
13 May 2019, 11.30 – 12.00
Palais des Nations, Assembly Hall
I would like to welcome the participants to this Forum. My thanks also go to the co-organizers, of this important gathering, the UNDRR Science and Technology Advisory Group, the International Science Coun…
GP2019 SRSG Speech Ministerial Round Table 1 (“Accelerating the achievement of the Sendai Framework: Benefits of coherence and integrated approach with SDGs and Climate Change”)
15 May 2019
I think it would be hard to overstate the benefits of coherence across our necessarily complementary efforts to eradicate poverty and hunger, to re…
JAKARTA, 28 November 2019 - Since its creation in 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has doubled in size and grown in influence to become the leading regional organization for multilateral cooperation. Along with this growth, attention turned to addressing impediments to the social and economic prosperity of its member states. Chie…
SENDAI, 5 November, 2019 - Tsunami warning sirens sounded across the Sendai coastal plain this morning sending thousands of people to some 40 designated evacuation sites as Japan marked World Tsunami Awareness Day with many such drills.
In Sendai, a helicopter flew along the seashore over the designated Tsunami Inundation Area reinforcing the warning t…
Throughout my life I have visited many communities affected by extreme weather events and other natural hazards.
From the South Pacific to Mozambique to the Caribbean and beyond, I have seen the devastating and life-changing impact of the climate emergency on vulnerable communities.
Disasters inflict horrendous suffering and can wipe out decades of d…
GENEVA, 11 October 2019 – Climate change is contributing to increasing damage to critical infrastructure around the globe, according to a twelve-year survey of damages caused by small- and medium-scale disasters conducted by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Schools, health facilities and roads are regularly damaged by small-scale…
22 September 2019, New York – Passion and urgency may not be two of the most common words associated with events at the United Nations headquarters in New York but that is certainly what delegates and speakers brought when they convened at the Youth Climate Summit.
A day after millions of young people globally marched and rallied for urgent climate act…
GENEVA, 3 September 2019 – The Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mami Mizutori, today expressed her condolences to the Government and people of The Bahamas following the reported loss of life as a result of Hurricane Dorian, an unprecedented storm which continues to batter the Bahamas and threaten the US mainland.…
Kobe, 25 June 2019 – The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitment (SFVC) first Synthesis and Analysis Report was launched in Geneva during the recent Global Platform. Voluntary Commitments (VCs) are made by multiple stakeholders (private sector, local governments, civil society organizations, academia, media, etc.) in support of the implementation of the S…
GENEVA, 17 May, 2019 - “If investors do not address disaster risk properly, their business performance will be directly affected,” stressed Sandra Wu, Board Member of UN Global Compact. “They have to understand that if they do not incorporate risk-informed investments, they will lose their business.”
This is the main message of the very well-attended t…
GENEVA, May 15th 2019 The world faces new, emerging, and much larger threats than ever before, linked to climate change, environmental degradation, and the growing potential for one disaster to produce or exacerbate another, says a new report from the United Nations.
The Global Assessment Report 2019 (GAR2019) published by the United Nations Office for…
GENEVA, 14 May 2019 - The Asia-Pacific region is making progress in reducing disaster mortality, but high economic losses from disasters point to a need for governments to accelerate the implementation of the disaster risk reduction strategies they have developed.
This was the state of progress the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) provid…
GENEVA, May 14, 2019 - The 2nd Multi Hazard Early Warning Conference closed today with a strong focus on the role that governance must play in ensuring the effectiveness of early warnings and underlined the importance of collaboration when making the switch from single hazard to multi-hazard warnings.
The challenge of doing this effectively was un…
GENEVA, 13 May, 2019 - Inclusion matters. The phrase turned into a hashtag today as the theme of inclusion constantly raised its head in the 4th World Reconstruction Conference, the 2nd Multi-Hazard Early Warning Conference and the Science and Policy Forum which all got underway today as part of the build up to the opening of the Global Platform for Dis…