Global Platform calls for immediate start on developing targets for risk reduction

UNISDR

The three-day 4th Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, attended by a record 3,500 people and representatives from 172 governments, ended today with a call for 'the immediate start of work to develop targets and indicators to monitor the reduction of risk' in the Chair's Summary at the closing plenary. The government of Japan also announced that it would be hosting the 2015 World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction...

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  BELTA, Belarus - gov

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