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Displaying 120 of about 206 resultsTURIN, Italy, 22 February 2017 – Europe has launched a new drive to protect its heritage sites from the risk of disasters, an issue given added urgency by a string of earthquakes that wrecked age-old buildings in central Italy.
The ResCult project, short for “Increasing Resilience of Cultural Heritage” and unveiled on Monday in the northern Italian cit…
LIMA, 8 December 2016 – Peru is harnessing the power of business to reduce the impacts of natural and human-induced hazards, thanks to the creation of a national chapter of the UNISDR Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies.
The alliance, known for short as ARISE, was set up last year by UNISDR and its partners to help companies play t…
NEW YORK, 27 September 2015 – The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and its existing private sector partners have called on businesses around the globe to join a new initiative that aims to raise resilience in the face of natural and man-made hazards.
“ARISE: the Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies” is set to be launched formal…
GENEVA, 18 August 2015 – UNISDR has added new momentum to the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, a 15-year international plan to curb deaths and economic damage caused by natural and man-made hazards.
The 'Words into Action' process, launched today, will gather experts from around the globe to shape by the end of 2016 a…
Addis Ababa, 16 July 2015 – The global importance of disaster risk reduction has received fresh international recognition, etched into a deal agreed today at the Third International Conference on Financing for Development.
The Addis Ababa Action Agenda aims to overhaul global finance practices and generate investments for tackling a range of economic,…
BRUSSELS, 17 June 2016 – The links between disaster risk reduction, sustainable development and climate change adaptation are in focus this week in the European Union’s hub of Brussels.
The European Development Days -- the continent’s top forum on development, now into its tenth edition – have highlighted the importance of good data for successful impl…
LUANDA, 22 April 2016 – Six southern African countries have taken a key step in their efforts to implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, a 15-year global agreement to curb the impact of natural and man-made hazards, by starting a programme to harness data.
Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia --…
TORONTO, Canada, 29 March 2016 – Ensuring that companies understand and act on the risks posed by natural and man-made hazards is a vital step towards reducing disaster impacts. Business education offers a tool to achieve this.
A dozen universities from Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru and the United States have…
GENEVA, January 29 2016 – Hundreds of scientists and policymakers today pledged to step up action on the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, a 15-year global agreement that aims to curb deaths and economic losses from natural and man-made hazards.
The first-ever UNISDR Science and Technology Conference, which drew 750 delegates to Geneva from…
18 March 2015, SENDAI – Preliminary results of a catastrophe modelling study presented today at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction show little prospect of reducing economic losses from present levels of $240 billion per year.
Dr. Milan Simic, Senior Vice President of AIR Worldwide, said the study normalized the economic losses fro…
Geneva/London, 20/06/2023: Today, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and Climate Bonds Initiative (Climate Bonds) announced the launch of a new White Paper to guide the development of a taxonomy for adaptation and resilience finance investment. The announcement comes ahead of the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact in Paris…
A year after the adoption of the Doha Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), it has become clearer than ever the importance of helping LDCs build their disaster resilience to protect their development gains. Disasters not only kill more people in LDCs than anywhere else, as they account for 70 per cent of climate-related disa…
As world leaders are traveling to Bali to meet at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2022 and discuss how to better prevent and reduce current and future risks, the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) and United Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) have launched the new report “Rethinking R…
On December 19, 2023. The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), supported by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), organized two webinars sharing the lessons and tools from a 1.5-year-long work on Budget Tagging and Tracking for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA). These we…
City leaders and officials from around the world are better positioned to unlock resources and achieve on-the-ground impact for the development of resilient urban infrastructure projects. Representatives of 21 local governments from 19 countries advanced their risk assessment and climate finance skills to provide a springboard from planning to acce…