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UN Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mami Mizutori, laid out the benefit-cost ratio of building resilient cities for increasing climate-related hazards.
The UN’s weather agency has explained how climate change imposes crippling effect on mountain and glacier regions, and the people who rely on them.
Alors que l'épidémie se poursuit en République démocratique du Congo, le Rwanda réalise un investissement important dans la préparation contre le virus Ebola.
The Fall Armyworm is continuing to sweep across the globe, having moved eastwards from their native Americas, onto Africa, before arriving in Asia only last summer. They now threaten to cost farmers billions of dollars in lost production. The FAO is working with authorities to manage the risk and contain spread.
At the High-Level Experts and Leaders Panel on Water and Disasters Symposium in Tokyo, UN Secretary-General António Guterres reiterated that some countries have experienced losses akin to 40% of their GDP from water-related disasters. Losses are expected to get worse in the future as climate change exacerbates disasters.
According to a meeting between the ECOSOC and the UN Peacebuilding Commission, sustainable peace in Africa's Sahel is only possible with climate mitigation and sufficient livelihood opportunities. The coordination of policies, the creation of partnerships, resource mobilization, and the promotion of national ownership for projects can help achieve peace.
Space and big data technologies are already important elements of early warning systems and are prominently featured in the Sendai Framework. In addition, the applications of space technology and newer domains, including big data, are vital for reducing disaster risk in many African and developing countries.
Given that tsunamis can quite literally wash away entire cities and livelihoods, states must invest in risk-informed development. Efforts addressing disaster risk and recovery from hazards also offer one of the strongest spaces for multilateralism, whereby countries collaborate after disasters to mitigate future risk.
Voluntary Commitments
The organization has no registered commitments.
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.