Launch of the 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction
Headquarters of the United Nations
The 2015 Global Assesment Report (GAR15) is the leading UN publication on the status of global disaster risk today. The relevance of the Global Assessment Report has become painfully clear, against the backdrop of a number of major disasters, it provides an innovative analysis of the economic cost of such disasters, as well as guidance on how to reduce the significant costs and protect societies.
GAR15 focuses on the issue of strengthening the governance of disaster risk and presents the case for a broad reinterpretation of disaster risk management. As the HFA draws to a close, GAR15 questions whether the way in which disaster risk management has been approached under the HFA is really fit for purpose in a world now threatened by catastrophic increases in disaster risk.
The launch events:
- 4 March 2015, Headquarters of the United Nations, New York, 11am-12:30pm - Launch by Mr Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, with Margareta Wahlström, SRSG for Disaster Risk Reduction, and representatives from Peru, the Maldives, the European Union, the United States of America and UNDP.
- 5 March 2015, The Royal Society, London, 10-11:30am - Launch hosted by the Royal Society with Sir Mark Walport, Government Chief Scientific Advisor; Robert Muir-Wood, Risk Management Solutions (RMS); and Prof David Satterthwaite, IIED.
- 15 March 2015, World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, Sendai City, 12-1:30pm - Working Session on Global Risk Trends with presentations on GAR results and main findings, progress in probabilistic risk modelling (Omar Dario Cardona), new perspectives on loss and risk (Ilan Noy and Priyanthi Fernando), and the GAR for Tablet (GfT) application for tablet and smartphones (Shinichi Takemura).
At each of these events, Andrew Maskrey, Coordinating Lead Author or the GAR, will present the key findings and be available to answer questions from the audience.