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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.

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The Head of UN office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström today officially acknowledged Canberra as a Role Model city for UNISDR's Making Cities Resilient Campaign by presenting a certificate to the Australian Capital Territory Minister for Police and Emergency Services, Simon Corbell.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
The statue of a Hindu deity is submerged by flood waters of the river Ganges in Uttarakhand, India.
Press release
The Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), Margareta Wahlström, today predicted that the year 2013 will be a turning point in how governments around the world view the threat of floods in a new age of extreme weather events.
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UNISDR Chief Margareta Wahlström today welcomed a proposal that "resilient cities" should be one of ten top global priorities in the post-2015 development agenda.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - New York UNHQ Liaison Office
The Christchurch earthquakes highlighted the vital importance of good governance.
Update
Two countries sitting at opposite ends of the world are emerging as beacons of good practice in terms of innovative public-private partnerships that have been proven to reduce disaster risk.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
Press release
The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) today issued a warning that a lack of safe drinking water is emerging as a major natural hazard for many small islands in the Pacific.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
Overview of Green Community Tagonishi, a project by Kokusai Kogyo to build and develop a disaster resilient neighbourhood.
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An innovative urban developer in one of the world's most hazard-prone countries has urged public and private sector leaders to embrace his company's vision of building cities that 'people escape to rather than run away from' during disasters.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Kobe Office
Photo copyright NEMA. The 2012 floods which impacted the country's GDP and displaced over six million people provided the backdrop to discussions this week between the Nigerian Government and UNISDR on disaster risk management.
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ABUJA, June 12 - The Nigerian government has requested the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) to facilitate the development of a comprehensive disaster risk management plan for Africa’s most populous country.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Africa
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (left), President of the Republic of Indonesia and Co-Chair of the Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, presents the Panel’s report to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
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The Head of UNISDR, Margareta Wahlström, today welcomed the emphasis placed on the links between poverty reduction and disaster risk reduction in the report of the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda which identifies climate change as the main obstacle in the way of ending extreme poverty.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Press release
The three-day 4th Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, attended by a record 3,500 people and representatives from 172 governments, ended today with a call for "the immediate start of work to develop targets and indicators to monitor the reduction of risk" in the Chair's Summary at the closing plenary.
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Sendai City Mayor Emiko Okuyama and Kokusai Kogyo's Chairperson and CEO Sandra Wu, Wen-Hsiu during the opening day plenary of the Global Platform.
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Sendai City in Japan has been selected to host the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in 2015. The city of one million people in the northern region of Tohoku was one of the hardest hit zones in the March 2011 Great Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific

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