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A slate of upcoming UN conferences this year – on disaster risk reduction in March, on financing for development in July, and on climate change in December, as well as a summit-level meeting in New York this coming September – would seek to tackle the linked challenges of sustainable development...
'A decade later, while events marking the remembrance of the tsunami recall the human tragedy, FAO examines the lessons learned in mitigating damage to agricultural livelihoods, food security and nutrition wrought by such natural and climatic events,' said Hiroyuki Konuma, FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific...
UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon called for tangible progress in solidifying the climate finance regime, including capitalization of the Green Climate Fund and leveraging of private finance, and stressed also the need to prioritize provision of adaptation support and resilience building, particularly for the most vulnerable...
'We must consolidate progress on adaptation to achieve political parity with mitigation, given the equal urgency of both,' Christiana Figueres, the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC stated. 'We must enhance the delivery of finance, in particular to the most vulnerable'...
'We have the opportunity and the responsibility to bring women’s voices to the fore of climate change solutions...Women with the knowledge we hold and the ability to get things done are a valuable resource but traditionally under-utilized,' said Ms. Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN FCCC ahead of the meeting...
Disaster risk reduction approaches must recognize why people live with risks and how their behaviour and attitudes related to culture affect their exposure and sensitivity to hazards, a new United Nations-backed report out today warns...
Reducing vulnerability and strengthening resilience are critical to securing human development progress, the United Nations says in a flagship report released today that examines the risks posed by natural or human-induced disasters and crises and offers ways to tackle them...
Can the United Nations help to protect people seeking safety abroad if their homes and jobs are destroyed by prolonged drought, rising sea levels or other climate change-related phenomena in the same way as if they were displaced by war or human rights abuses? The short answer, today anyway, is no...
Voluntary Commitments
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The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.