DRR financing

SS1: Comprehensive approaches to reduce loss and damage: Bridging climate action and disaster risk reduction

Science and technology

Bangladeshi women standing in a flooded street

Official Programme

05 Jun 2025

16:30 - 18:00 (CEST+0 Europe/Berlin)

CICG - Plenary A

Onsite & Online

This session will focus on addressing the rising impact of climate-related disasters, which are disproportionately affecting vulnerable communities.

Special session

Leave no one behind

MSP3: Investments in reducing risk and building resilience to accelerate progress in sustainable development

Students from Tonga's Tailulu College making the most of new high-speed broadband services

Official Programme

05 Jun 2025

14:30 - 17:00 (CEST+0 Europe/Berlin)

CICG - Amphitheatre D

Onsite & Online

The session will serve as a platform for Governments and stakeholders to report progress on scaling up financing for DRR including through innovative financing mechanisms and strategies, and examples of localized financing solutions.

Multi-stakeholder plenaries

Managing current and future risks

Science and technology

TS4-1: Inclusive and multisectoral approach to effective preparedness

Official Programme

06 Jun 2025

09:00 - 10:30 (CEST+0 Europe/Berlin)

CICG - Plenary C

Onsite & Online

This session will focus on strengthening effective pre-disaster preparedness to effectively respond and build back better in recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction.

Managing current and future risks

Leave no one behind

Science and technology

Official Programme

06 Jun 2025

14:30 - 16:00 (CEST+0 Europe/Berlin)

CICG - Plenary C

Onsite & Online

TS3-4: Advancing DRR localization through South-South and triangular cooperation, peer-to-peer exchange, and international partnership

The session will offer actionable recommendations for scaling up international cooperation, enhancing coordination across stakeholders at all levels and expanding partnerships to engage new actors.

Local and Community-based DRR

Official Programme

06 Jun 2025

14:30 - 16:00 (CEST+0 Europe/Berlin)

CICG - Plenary B

Onsite & Online

TS3-3: Accelerating Private Sector Engagement in Disaster Risk Reduction

This session will focus on strengthening private sector resilience to advance DRR, showcasing how strategic financing and investment can drive these efforts.

Risk identification and assessment

TS3-2: Infrastructure for a resilient, inclusive and sustainable future

vehicle carrying vegetation in a flooded grassland

Official Programme

04 Jun 2025

16:00 - 17:30 (CEST+0 Europe/Berlin)

CICG - Plenary C

Onsite & Online

This session brings together key infrastructure stakeholders to understand the bottlenecks, share actionable strategies for scaling infrastructure resilience and highlight pathways for embedding resilience into infrastructure projects well beyond 2030.

Risk identification and assessment

TS3-1: Integrating DRR into the global financial system

Official Programme

05 Jun 2025

16:30 - 18:00 (CEST+0 Europe/Berlin)

CICG - Plenary B

Onsite & Online

This session will discuss the reforms and actions needed to integrate DRR into global financial system by different stakeholders, including Governments, private investors, financial regulators, insurance companies and international financial institutions.

HLD3: What will it take to scale DRR financing at the national and local levels?

Official Programme

05 Jun 2025

09:00 - 10:30 (CEST+0 Europe/Berlin)

CICG - Plenary A

Onsite & Online

The Midterm Review of the Sendai Framework revealed persistent DRR financing gaps, especially in low-income countries. This high-level dialogue will discuss the course correction needed to scale financing solutions at national and local levels.

High-level dialogue