A media briefing with the UN Assistant Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström, that took place in Geneva, 12 March 2009.
Ms Wahlström outlines her new role with the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) Secretariat and lists the Secretariat's important agenda for 2009:
- Launch of Global Assessment Report to take place in Bahrein, 11 May 2009
- Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, 16-19 June 2009
- Economic review on DRR to be launched in autumn 2009