News on finance

The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) published the Integrated National Financing Frameworks (INFFs) for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Guidance Note.

Webinars on sharing the lessons and tools from a 1.5-year-long work on Budget Tagging and Tracking for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA).

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) officially launched two global taxonomies on adaptation and resilience at COP28 on 4 December 2023 in the Iraq pavilion.

Online training on budget tagging for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation organized by UNDRR and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).

UNDRR Deputy Chief, Partnerships Branch, joined a moderated discussion on Data-Driven Decision-Making for Resilient Cities where he shared how the private sector can play a crucial role in financing and directing investments for disaster risk reduction.

City leaders and officials from around the world are better positioned to unlock resources and achieve on-the-ground impact for the development of resilient urban infrastructure projects.

Without resilience, all the world’s development gains could be lost. Resilience can be built by investing in disaster risk reduction, which sits at the nexus between development, humanitarian and climate action.

A special edition of the Global Assessment Report (GAR 2023) finds hard-won economic and development gains are in danger from the growing number of disasters with global warming the prime contributor.

New paper builds the foundations of a resilience taxonomy to channel trillions into projects to reduce climate impacts.

UNDRR convened representatives from selected high-cap companies, leaders in their respective industries to identify priority actions to further embed disaster reduction in corporate mindset to advance the resilience of societies to disaster risks.