UNDRR News

The upcoming Global Assessment Report 2019 will once again emphasise that reducing disaster risk also helps to reduce poverty and to safeguard development gains. It considers the systemic and pluralistic nature of risk: in multiple dimensions, at multiple scales and with multiple impacts.

Scientists working with the UN Country Team in Nepal have found that earthquake risk in the west of the country is being overlooked.

Major efforts are underway in Montenegro to reduce the risks from disasters with the launch of a national disaster loss database to mark the 40 th anniversary of a major earthquake.

Four years on from the April 2015 earthquake, reconstruction efforts are continuing.

It is hoped to have the 1st Arab Science And Technology Confernce for DRR in Beirut later this year.

National Workshop to Kick-off the CubeSat Technology Project “Toward Developing the First Lebanese NanoSatellite” 16.15 - 18.00, 9 April 2019 Beirut Remarks Ms. Mami Mizutori Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction Your

Events such as last year's deadly Sulawesi tsunami in Indonesia underline the importance of communication and outreach to vulnerable populations.

Cambodia is stepping up efforts to reduce disaster risk as it battles climate change and extreme weather events with a new National Action Plan for Disaster Risk Reduction.

Brisbane, host of the next Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, is also home to the Queensland Reconstruction Authority.

Cyclone Idai shows once more how the countries which contribute the least to climate change are the ones most affected by it. The levels of poverty in developing countries like Mozambique prevent them from investing significantly in resilient infrastructure and could hinder efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.