The climate crisis is upon us, and we are only just beginning to endure the consequences of the neglect we have shown to our planet. Melting ice caps, rising sea levels, the proliferation of extreme ...
It is just over three years since United Nations Member States adopted the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the global plan to reduce disaster losses, which is pivotal to the ...
Under the umbrella of the Disaster Risk Reduction Programme in Somalia, the UNDRR ROAS organized a National Training Workshop on the Sendai Framework Monitor, in collaboration with the Ministry of ...
An 84-year-old woman sits outside her room, where she lives alone, at a temporary housing complex for evacuees from the crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which followed the March 2011 ...
More than 900 participants from national and local governments, academia, private sector, international organizations, and civil society from around the world gathered in Sendai, Japan from 26-28 ...
Incheon, Republic of Korea - UNITAR and its International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders (CIFAL) Jeju are ...
International Day for Disaster Reduction promotes a global culture of risk awareness and disaster reduction by celebrating how people around the world are reducing their exposure to disasters. This ...
We’re launching the first Disaster Risk and Age Index at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, 14-18 March. The Index ranks 190 countries across the world on the disaster ...
Disaster risk managers from Africa have been participating in a five-day study tour in Europe this week organised by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and CIMA Research ...
Even in its current state of pandemic-induced isolation, North Korea continues to engage the international community on climate adaption and disaster risk reduction. In this undated photo provided ...
The United Nations has endorsed a new global statistical framework for disaster-related statistics to help countries better understand and reduce growing disaster risks. The Global Disaster-Related ...