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Abdulla Shahid, President of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly
Update
The seventh Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction 2022 (GP2022) continued its work with another dense day, which included two plenary sessions on the Mid-term Review, a high-level dialogue, a ministerial roundtable, and other thematic sessions.
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Highway with cars rushing over it at night.
Update
Day-to-day life depends on infrastructure and its services, this includes supply-chains, electricity, water and sanitation, and information networks. In the face of COVID-19 and increasing extreme weather events, these systems are under increasing threat.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
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.
Press release
Three individuals – Myriam Urzúa Venegas, Rajib Shaw and Glenn Suerte Felipe Banaguas – and three organizations – the Pacific Disaster Center, Save the Children Philippines, and SEEDS – are the six laureates of the 2022 United Nations Sasakawa Award.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

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