The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction lays out a clear pathway for reducing disaster risks, with a focus on achieving tangible results. 🛤️ 🌐It recognizes that disaster risk is global, and tackling it requires a multilateral effort. 🎂Today, 18 March, is the Sendai Framework's 10th anniversary – and we call for governments, the private sector, and the international community to recommit to implementing the Framework with urgency, global cooperation and solidarity. #GP2025 #ActForResi

Disaster risk reduction is an investment in the future. 🌀We can break the vicious disaster – recovery – repeat cycle. How? 📈By boosting efficiency and development – with disaster risk integrated into public finance. 💪By empowering vulnerable countries to invest in high-impact resilience-building measures. We must build resilience together, for the planet, for the people, for the future. 🌟 💡This week in Oslo, the High-Level Forum on Accelerated Disaster Risk Reduction Financing to Build Resi

Today is International Day of Disaster Reduction. On this day, it’s good to keep in mind that climate change is fueling disasters such as Hurricane Matthew. The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) has asked governments to take note of the profound implications of record carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere and to increase their level of ambition to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to limit the impacts of climate change. Read more>> bit.ly/2ddlJkQ | UN Climate Change