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The latest news from the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), the lead UN agency for the coordination of disaster risk reduction.

H.E. Mr. Enrique Peña Nieto, the President of Mexico (fourth from left) and Ms. Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations (fifth from left) during the opening ceremony of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2017 (photo: UNISDR)
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The Cancun High-Level Communiqué

Leaders’ Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction - Cancun High-Level Communiqué 'Ensuring the resilience of infrastructure and housing.'
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
The private sector is responsible for the lion's share of investment, meaning that risk-sensitive approaches are critical to prevent disasters
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Governments and business should engage to curb risk

Businesses and the authorities need to work hand in hand to prevent natural and human-induced from hazards sparking disasters, a top international conference has heard.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
President of Mexico, Mr. Enrique Peña Nieto, and the UN Deputy Secretary-General, Ms. Amina Mohammed, listen to a speech at the opening of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (Photo: UNISDR)
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President of Mexico opens Global Platform

The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction was inaugurated today by the President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, as some 6,000 participants descended on the coastal town of Cancun for a series of working meetings to make progress on reducing disaster losses.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
The success of early warning systems in saving lives and livelihoods needs to 'travel the last mile' to the world's most exposed and vulnerable communities (Photo: UNISDR)
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Early warning for all

Advances in early warning systems and disaster risk awareness have saved tens of thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Ms. Apsara Pandey of the Nursing Association of Nepal holds her 2017 Risk Award trophy, flanked by Mr. David Stevens of UNISDR (right), and jury members Ms. Sandra Wu, board member of the UNISDR Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies, and Mr. Thomas Loster, Chairman of the Munch Re Foundation (Photo: UNISDR)
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Nepal nursing project wins Risk Award

A cutting-edge plan to deploy the power of technology to monitor health risks in Nepal has won an international award at the 2017 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
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UN business group calls for resilience

A UN-backed group of companies working to curb hazard impacts has unveiled a new plan of action on the eve of the 2017 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Tuvalu’s early warning system has reached the last mile in one of the world’s most isolated nations (photo: Michael Coghlan/Flickr)
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Early warning where there is no internet

Living on an island in the middle of the ocean with no internet, television or mobile phones is a real-life disaster risk nightmare for one Pacific nation. Yet, the prospect of reaching the last mile – a phrase with true meaning in this part of the world – has inspired the tiny band of disaster risk reduction policymakers and practitioners of Tuvalu to establish an early warning system to protect some of the world’s most isolated communities.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Traditional decorative panel outside the GP2017 conference centre in Cancun (photo: Jon Halty/UNISDR)
Press release

Mexico Hosts Record Gathering on Disaster Prevention

The escalation of economic losses from disasters is expected to draw a record attendance of 7,000 people at a biennial UN forum that will bring world leaders and representatives of civil society together to agree ways and means of preventing and mitigating disaster impacts.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Tsunami survivor and campaigner, Petra Nemcova, speaking to the Multi-Hazard Early Warning Conference
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Tsunami survivor's plea for early warning

A two day Multi-Hazard Early Warning Conference is underway in Cancun, Mexico, and its recommendations will feed into the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction which opens tomorrow.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
A detail from the disaster resilience scorecard
Press release

UN Disaster Resilience Scorecard to Target Cities

The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) today announced a major revision to its Disaster Resilience Scorecard designed to boost the number of cities and towns reducing their disaster losses by 2020 in line with a key global agreement.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

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