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Displaying 6 of about 6 results06 March 2015, GENEVA – A week before world leaders and representatives of civil society gather in Sendai, Japan, for the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction said today that climate-related disasters now dominate disaster risk management.
Margareta Wahlström, head of the UN Office for Disaster…
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 outlines seven clear targets and four priorities for action to prevent new and reduce existing disaster risks: (i) Understanding disaster risk; (ii) Strengthening disaster risk governance to manage disaster risk; (iii) Investing in disaster reduction for resilience and; (iv) Enhancing disaster p…
BANGKOK, 12 June 2015 – India’s deadly heatwave shows that countries need to switch from disaster management to managing the risks, in line with the new Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, according to one of the country’s leading experts on development.
“The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction cannot be implemented in Asia without a…
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The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 outlines seven clear targets and four priorities for action to prevent new and reduce existing disaster risks: (i) Understanding disaster risk; (ii) Strengthening disaster risk governance to manage disaster risk; (iii) Investing in disaster reduction…
This UNISDR briefing note reaffirms its intention of promoting coherence and mutual reinforcement of disaster risk reduction in the climate change agenda in the context of COP21 and expected outcome of a new climate agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol.
The note includes specific messages for COP21 on disaster risk reduction to build climate resilie…
23 November 2015, GENEVA – A new report issued today by the UN, “The Human Cost of Weather Related Disasters”, shows that over the last twenty years, 90% of major disasters have been caused by 6,457 recorded floods, storms, heatwaves, droughts and other weather-related events.
The five countries hit by the highest number of disasters are the United Sta…