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Demolition of silos.
| Source: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Disasters unfold across national boundaries, involving a range of interrelated hazards and complex dynamics. To tackle disaster risks and build
Mid-Term Review of the Sendai Framework, 7th Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, 26 May 2022, Bali, Indonesia
| Source: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction was a ‘wake-up call’ to improve preventative measures and ‘stop the spiral of increasing disaster impact
Abdulla Shahid, President of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly
| Source: International Institute for Sustainable Development
The seventh Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction 2022 (GP2022) continued its work with another dense day, which included two plenary sessions on
Highway with cars rushing over it at night.
| Source: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Day-to-day life depends on infrastructure and its services, this includes supply-chains, electricity, water and sanitation, and information networks
Bishkek meeting
| Source: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Europe & Central Asia
With financial support from the EU, and the facilitation of UNDRR, the city of Bishkek launched its Detailed Disaster Resilience Scorecard Assessment
Rajib Shaw - Professor at Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Japan - has championed multi-hazard community-based disaster risk reduction in six Asian countries, and his work has led to the establishment of village level community-based working groups.
| Source: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Three individuals – Myriam Urzúa Venegas, Rajib Shaw and Glenn Suerte Felipe Banaguas – and three organizations – the Pacific Disaster Center, Save
Ministerial Roundtable: Scaling up Disaster Risk Reduction to Tackle the Climate Emergency, Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, 25 May 2022, Bali, Indonesia
| Source: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
The 7th Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR) is taking place at a critical juncture in our planet’s history.
Dushanbe joins MCR2030
| Source: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Europe & Central Asia
Through financial support from the European Union, the city of Dushanbe and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) conducted
UN High-Level Delegation at 7th Global Plaform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Bali
| Source: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Countries gathered in Indonesia to review global progress to reduce the threat of climate hazards and other disasters amid the rising toll of extreme
Emtithal Mahmoud, Poet and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador
| Source: International Institute for Sustainable Development
The main segment of the seventh Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction 2022 (GP2022) began its deliberations on Wednesday, 25 March, with an