GP2025 Newsroom

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Opportunities
Call for applications for GP2025 Side Events

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) is pleased to announce that the application for Side Events of the eighth session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP2025) is now open!

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
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Opportunities
Save the Date: Applications for GP2025 Side Events, Ignite Stage and Innovation Platform

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) is pleased to announce that the application for the Informal Programme of the eighth session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP2025) will be opening soon!

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
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Opportunities
Call for applications for GP2025 Sessions' Organizing Teams

UNDRR is pleased to launch a Call for Applications to serve on the GP2025 Sessions' Organizing Teams. The Global Platform Organizing Teams (OTs) are multi-stakeholder groups of experts that help shape the substantive aspects of Global Platforms

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Update
Outcome statement of the Third Multi-Hazard Early Warning Conference (MHEWC-III)

The Conference took place shortly following the declaration by UN SG that the UN will spearhead new action to ensure every person on Earth is protected by Early Warning Systems within five years.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Global Platform 2022
Update
GP2022 Proceedings available in all six UN languages

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) is glad to announce that the Proceedings for the seventh session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP2022) are now available in all six UN languages

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
7th Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, 23-28 May 2022, Bali, Indonesia
Update
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.
Update
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
Update
"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
Update
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)
Amal Ridene, Young Climate Change Negotiator
Update
Inequality and vulnerability must be addressed for gender-responsive and accessible disaster risk reduction

Diverse leadership and adaptive social protection are critical factors for resilient and sustainable risk reduction and protection against the impacts of disaster and extreme climate events.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Speeches and statements
Government leaders, UN representatives, technical experts, and other stakeholders outline priorities, share lessons, and call for collective action on disaster risk reduction.