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A new report by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs warns that close to three in five cities worldwide with at least 500,000 inhabitants are at high risk of a disaster. Collectively, these cities are home to 1.4 billion people or around one third of the world’s urban population.
With the contribution of the international community and cooperation among countries of the region, the Caribbean has initiated a process of risk informed recovery in various sectors to recover from hurricanes Irma and Maria. However, the unpredictability brought about by climate change remains a concern.
With the World Bank estimating that disasters cost the global economy $520 billion annually while pushing 26 million people into poverty, reducing disaster risk is a cross-cutting issue for all the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially SDG 1, on the eradication of poverty in all its forms everywhere.
Un proyecto conjunto permitirá a los países de la región aumentar la resiliencia del Corredor Seco de Centroamérica y las zonas áridas de la República de República Dominicana, afectadas por el cambio climático. La adaptación consiste en aprovechar la biodiversidad y los servicios ecosistémicos para reducir la vulnerabilidad y aumentar la capacidad.
Terremotos, ciclones, huracanes y otros desastres naturales cuestan a la economía mundial aproximadamente 520.000 millones de dólares, pero la peor parte se la llevan los países con menos recursos lo que les puede impedir que alcancen los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible.
From higher morbidity and mortality rates to reduced economic growth, the impact of sand and dust storms can be major, especially for lower-income nations and vulnerable communities. However, with stronger collaboration and improved information-sharing, much of the risk could be managed and mitigated.
Competition over scant resources and the vicious cycle of risk and vulnerability have decreased the ability of populations to cope with humanitarian crises in the Lake Chad region, says a senior UN official to the Security Council. Declining economic activity and agricultural loss have led to a lack of employment opportunities across the region.
Despite a massive humanitarian effort over the past six months in the Eastern Caribbean, Cuba and Haiti, there is still much work to be done to rehabilitate water and sanitation and other infrastructure damaged by powerful hurricanes Irma and Maria, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported on Tuesday.
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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.