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Displaying 143 of about 143 resultsPHNOM PENH, 8 April 2019 - Considered one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to the effects of climate change, the Royal Government of Cambodia is taking major steps to improve its resilience and reduce its disaster risk with support from the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.
To build Cambodia’s resilience and protect its economic and s…
NEW DELHI, 19 March, 2019 - Ambition on building resilient infrastructure needs to match the scale of the problem. That was the message to participants attending the opening today of the 2nd International Workshop on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure.
“Yesterday was the 4th birthday of the Sendai Framework. It is no longer a 15-year framework but an 11…
KOBE, 4 February 2019 - Organizations working on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) have started to log their voluntary commitments in support of the Sendai Framework - the global roadmap for reducing disaster losses by 2030 - in a new online platform https://sendaicommitments.unisdr.org/
More than 50 users have registered in the first few weeks of operatio…
The world is an increasingly fragile place, especially for countries like Mozambique which lack resources to adapt to climate change
By Mami Mizutori, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction and head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Mozambique and the city of Beira do not want to go down in histo…
With the right policies and planning, hazards like storms and wildfires need not always lead to homelessness
By Mami Mizutori, UN-SRSG for Disaster Risk Reduction. and Alexandra Bilak, Director of the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.
Two months since Cyclone Idai struck the southeast African nation of Mozambique in mid…
Extreme change is taking place in planetary systems, undermining development gains and pushing people into poverty
By Mami Mizutori, head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
“Development efforts are increasingly at risk. A faltering global economy, food and energy insecurity, conflict, global climate change, declining ecosystems, extreme…
By Mami Mizutori, UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction
It is important to build infrastructure that is resilient to shocks brought about by a changing climate
The stark statistics jump out at anyone trying to understand why resilient infrastructure is so important in a world that is urbanising at an unprecede…
SRSGs REMARKS AT LAUNCH OF GLOBAL ASSESSMENT REPORT
ON DISASTER RISK REDUCTION (GAR2019)
Geneva, 15 May 2019
[Salutations]
Ambassador Khan, Professor Revi,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Time is running out for a world at risk.
We are four years into the implementation phase of the Sendai Framework. We have just 11 years left to deliver wha…