Science ‘is driving’ new plans for disaster risk reduction
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Science and Development Network
The post-Hyogo Framework for Action, a global plan that will largely influence the global plan to reduce disaster risk reduction is expected to be adopted at the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, Japan from 14-18 March 2015. The consultations for drafting the document started in 2012 and the 'pre-zero draft' was published in August, reports SciDevNet.
According to Pedro Basabe, senior programme officer at the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, the draft makes "significant improvements on the previous Hyogo text." He also added that "Science plays a more substantive role, not just in the priorities for action, but as a fundamental guiding principle."