The 8th Session of theGlobal Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction

GP2025

Geneva

2–6 June 2025

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OVERALL THEMES

Every Day Counts, Act for Resilience Today

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Managing current and future risks and uncertainties in a rapidly changing climate and global context

Prioritizing gender equality, accessibility and inclusion to leave no one behind

Accelerate action for our collective sustainable future

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7th Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, 23-28 May 2022, Bali, Indonesia
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The 2022 Global Platform for DRR: How the climate community became disaster risk reduction champions

The 2022 Global Platform for DRR brought together the DRR and climate communities around a concrete goal: finding solutions to scale up climate adaptation. And several early warning initiatives showed interesting parallels in taking this agenda forward.

Risk-informed Early Action Partnership (REAP)
Deputy Secretary General Amina J. Mohammed at a school tsunami drill during GP2022.
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UNESCO inaugurates the first tsunami ready community in Indonesia

On 28 May 2022 Tanjung Benoa district in Bali received their UNESCO-IOC Tsunami Ready Recognition, becoming the first Tsunami Ready Community in Indonesia. Guests from the GPDRR witnessed a school evacuation drill prior to the inauguration ceremony.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Transformation Platform, 7th Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, 27 May 2022, Bali, Indonesia
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"Think Resilience"

More countries must urgently adopt and improve early warning systems to reduce risks from an increasing number of climate hazards and other disasters across the world, a UN forum has concluded.

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim speaks
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Listen to the communities – Disaster displacement is on the increase, and the affected people must be heard

More than 30 million people were displaced as a result of disasters in 2020 alone, and this number is likely to rise with the mounting severity and number of climate-related extreme events.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
A woman being wheeled in a wheelchair at the 7th Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, 27 May 2022, Bali, Indonesia
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23-28 May 2022: Summary report GP2022

In a world challenged by natural hazards that are increasing in frequency and intensity, the seventh session of the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction 2022 (GP2022) could not be taking place at a more important moment.

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
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A Multi-stakeholder forum recognized by the UN General Assembly

The UN General Assembly recognizes the Global Platform as the global multi-stakeholder forum to review progress on the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. At the Platform, governments, the UN system and all stakeholders get together to share knowledge and discuss the latest developments and trends in reducing disaster risk, identify gaps and make recommendations to further accelerate the implementation of the Sendai Framework. The eighth session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction is organized and convened by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and hosted by the Government of Switzerland.