World leaders are gathering in the northern Japanese city of Sendai to attend the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR), in which they will collectively establish new international guidelines for disaster risk reduction to replace the 10-year-old Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA).
According to UNISDR communications and outreach chief Denis McClean, the conference will be attended by 20 heads of state or government, over 100 ministers and minister-level officials and thousands of delegations representing up to 190 countries.
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