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Displaying 135 of about 326 results29 September 2016, GENEVA – The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mr. Robert Glasser, today urged world leaders to take note of the profound implications of this month’s record carbon dioxide readings and to increase their level of commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
“It is deeply disturbing to learn…
10 March 2016, BANGKOK/GENEVA – The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and the World Health Organization today issued an appeal for national disaster management agencies to develop their preparedness and response capacities to include health emergencies alongside earthquakes, floods and storms as a top priority.
The head of the UN Office for Disaste…
GENEVA, January 27, 2015 - The UNISDR Science and Technology Conference opened today in Geneva with a tribute to the hundreds of scientists who have contributed their time to ground-breaking research on climate change and its impacts.
The head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mr. Robert Glasser, said: “The painstaking work of the hundreds…
SUVA, 27 October 2015 – The Pacific region today recommended the development of national and regional targets and indicators as a key element to the successful implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
The Closing Statement of the Pacific Disaster Resilience Meeting said this would “reinforce and support global targets and ind…
PARIS, 23 June 2015 - When it comes to quick wins on reducing deaths from man-made hazards, improving the quality of the air that we breathe would be a good start.
According to UNEP, not only could it save up to 2.5 million lives annually, it would also help to reduce crop losses and curb climate change by around .6°C. It can also lead to less disrupti…
13 March 2015, SENDAI – The world gathers this weekend in Sendai, Japan, for the third time in 21 years to agree on a new framework for managing disaster risk which will reduce mortality and economic losses.
Since the last such conference in Kobe, Japan, in January 2005, at least 700,000 people have died, 1.7 billion people have been affected and there…
SENDAI, 13 March 2015 – The President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) today emphasized the importance of “a good start here in Sendai” as the world gears up for what he called “the year for sustainable development”.
Mr Saber Hossain Chowdhury issued a rallying call to the thousands of policymakers and practitioners preparing for tomorrow’s openi…
TBILISI, 3 March 2015 – More inclusion and better coordination are needed to boost future efforts to strengthen resilience, according to disaster risk experts from Asia and Europe.
The representatives of eight National Platforms and coordination mechanisms for disaster risk reduction delivered their verdict as global policymakers prepare to convene for…
BISHKEK, 10 February 2015 – Ministers from Central Asia and the South Caucasus have called for a stronger regional approach to disaster resilience, as they step up effort to tackle the increasingly ‘trans-boundary’ nature of disaster risk.
With only 40 days to go before the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, the officials said such…
GENEVA, 4 February 2015 - Efforts to finalise the successor to the world’s most encompassing framework on disaster risk reduction have taken a leap forward, with the issue of health taking it into new territory.
“I’d say we’re around 90 percent there,” said Margareta Wahlström, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Disaster…
PAVIA, 21 January 2015 – The GEM Foundation today launched OpenQuake, a web-based platform which allows access to a wide variety of sources on earthquakes, enabling cutting-edge risk assessment and the sharing of information with a broad community. It is the fruit of an open source collaboration by over 300 experts across the world.
The head of UNISDR,…
MANILA, 10 December 2014 - As the Philippines continued its recovery from Typhoon Hagupit which killed more than 27 people over the weekend, thirty representatives of journalism schools from the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar met for two days in Manila to discuss how to integrate disaster risk reduction into training for…
More people live in urban areas than in rural areas today, and the proportion is expected to be over two-third by 2050. Urbanisation mirrors economic growth, but rapid and unplanned urbanisation and environmental degradation act as key risk drivers leading to a growing spate of disasters in cities. Climate change will further amplify risk and exacerbate…
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“The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction with its seven targets for the prevention of disasters and reducing disaster losses is essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The poor and most vulnerable, including women and girls, suffer disproportionately in disasters. Let’s put more effort into tackling disaster risk…
The consultation meeting aims to review the regional joint priorities of the environment and disaster risk reduction communities, as well as the priorities of various bilateral and multilateral funding mechanisms that are available to support this area of work. The meeting is expected to identify key priority topics on which technical assistance activit…