APEC urged to adopt disaster risk reduction framework

Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member economies are urged to adopt a framework on disaster risk reduction that will be proposed by the Philippines in the upcoming APEC Ministerial Meeting, reports the Manila Bulletin.

“The Philippines will formally push adoption of APEC on operations framework for disaster risk reduction in September,” said APEC 2015 National Organizing Council Undersecretary Ferdinand B. Cui Jr., at the briefing of the High-Level Policy Dialogue on Science and Technology in Higher Education held on Thursday.

“Disaster risk reduction is common to Asia Pacific countries. We need to respond as one,” Cui stressed. “We are hoping that APEC economies will adopt the framework which we’re going to propose.”