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Local leaders forum at the GP2022 on 23 May 2022 in Bali, Indonesia.
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A thousand ways local leaders are standing up to disaster risks: Urban resilience leaders think globally and act locally at Bali forum

Local governments play an essential role in disaster risk reduction and building resilience. At UNDRR’s 2022 Global Platform, the Local Leaders Forum opened a productive discussion on important issues around disaster resilience at city and district level.
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Press Releases

COVID-19 sparked new thinking on risks, UN report finds

As world leaders are traveling to Bali to meet at the Global Platform for DRR 2022 and discuss how to better prevent and reduce current and future risks, the UNU-EHS and UNDRR have launched the new report “Rethinking Risks in Times of COVID-19.”
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Documents and publications

Macroeconomic co-benefits of DRR investment: Assessment using the Dynamic Model of Multi-hazard Mitigation CoBenefits (DYNAMMICs) model

This contributing paper aims to bridge the important knowledge gap between the conceptualization of disaster risk reduction (DRR) benefits and formal theoretical underpinnings and methods for quantifying such multiple benefits.
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Synergies and trade-offs between sustainable economic development and climate change adaptation

This contributing paper aims to ascertain whether two designated sustainable pathways for economic development enable or constrain effective response to climate-related disaster risks.
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Supply chain resilience: The indirect economic implication of Sunda Strait (Krakatoa) tsunami and COVID-19 outbreak to the tourism hospitality supply chain in Pandeglang, Indonesia

This contributing paper delves into the impact of a tsunami and the COVID-19 pandemic on the coastal tourism sector in Pandeglang Regency (Banten Province) in Indonesia.
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Economic Consequences Assessment Model (ECAM): A tool & methodology for measuring indirect economic effects

The contributing paper explains how indirect economic impacts are computed, the necessary input data, and includes example applications for a hypothetical multi-dam breach, a hypothetical earthquake, and a hypothetical hurricane in the Caribbean.
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SRSG Mizutori's Remarks - Economic and Social Council Forum on Financing for Development: "Expanding Concessional Finance Aligned with National Sustainable Development Strategies"

The current approach to development assistance is not responsive to the increasing levels of risk within economic, social, and environmental systems. We must support the most vulnerable countries to attract finance for climate action and resilience.
Bangkok, Thailand
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Economic Affairs Officer, P4, Bangkok

The incumbent will be responsible for monitoring economic developments in a defined area and identifies recurrent and emerging issues of concern to the United Nations, with particular reference to Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) financing and related areas.

De-Risking Investments for People, Planet, and Prosperity

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - New York UNHQ Liaison Office
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Updates

Five lessons from COVID-19 on understanding and managing systemic risks

In an increasingly interconnected world, shocks are felt across sectors, borders and scales, revealing the systemic nature of risks. This holds true for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, for the effects of climate change, and also of newly emerging crises