Geneva Intl Cooperation, Switzerland - gov
'Our goal is mainly to sound the alarm, because if no one does anything, we will continue to spend a lot of money for humanitarian aid after the fact, instead of prevention before the fact,' said Neil McFarlane in an interview on the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction...
UNISDR
Participants recognized that there is an urgent need to address the drivers of risk as this is instrumental to social, economic and environmental sustainability and well-being of people and this should be a core part of the post-2015 development agenda, future sustainable development goals, and the mitigation of, and adaptation to, climate change...
AlertNet
'People's own determination to get out of poverty should be matched by our commitment to redistribute risk and build equality, thereby supporting them to thrive and prosper, rather than just cope and survive in a world of increasing risks,' Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf wrote in a foreword to the Views from the Frontline report...
