European business summit

The European Business Summit is Europe's key meeting place for business leaders and decision makers. Every year, the EBS attracts more than 1,500 participants from over 60 countries, including: European Commissioners, Prime Ministers, high-ranking individuals and about 200 journalists.The theme for EBS 2014 is: "The Business Agenda 2014-2019: Rebuilding a Competitive Europe".

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) session within the European Business Summit will be on the subject of "Reducing Risks in post-2015: Contribution of the Private Sector to Building Resilience to Disasters." The session will address three themes that are fundamental to the private sector: Business Opportunity, Business Continuity Management, and Access to Risk Information and Resilience Solutions. The discussion will focus specifically on how to capitalize on and optimize incentives for disaster resilient business practices and aims at identifying practical solutions and opportunities for optimizing financial and sustainability incentives for resilient investments. The outcomes of this session will contribute to the preparation towards the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (14-18 March 2015, Sendai, Japan), where an agreement on a post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction will be adopted. This framework will guide the collective efforts to build resilient nations and communities to disasters