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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.

Tsunami damage in the Toyoma District of Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture (Photo: Fukushima Prefecture)

Update

24 October 2016

Recovery and regeneration in Fukushima

The future of Fukushima Prefecture dramatically changed on 11 March 2011. A 9.0 magnitude earthquake off Japan’s eastern seaboard unleashed a powerful tsunami that triggered a devastating nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - New York UNHQ Liaison Office

From left to right: Mr. Robert Glasser, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction; Ms. Leni Robredo, Vice President of the Philippines; Mr. Sam Franklyn Gibson, Mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone; Mr. Juan Pablo Bonilla, Manager for Sustainability and Climate Change, Inter-American Development Bank; Ms. Barbara Kreissler, Director B2G Professional Lighting, Philips Lighting; Ms. Judith Rodin, President of the Rockefeller Foundation (Photo: UNISDR)

Update

18 October 2016

Call for innovative resilience financing to support sustainable cities

A high level panel has called for innovative approaches to increase financing so that cities become resilient to natural and man-made hazards and other shocks.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean

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Fiji has carried out a thorough post-disaster needs assessment in the wake of Cyclone Winston, pointing the way forward for disaster risk reduction (Photo: IFRC)

Update

10 October 2016

#IDDR2016: Fiji’s honest appraisal of Cyclone Winston

There were fears of very large loss of life when Fiji was hit in February this year by the first category 5 cyclone in its recorded history, and the strongest ever seen in the southern hemisphere.

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Mr. Craig Fugate (centre), Administrator of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency, with ARISE board members Ms. Sandra Wu of Kokusai Kogyo and Mr. Hans Sy of SM Prime, during this week's meeting (Photo: UNISDR)

Update

7 October 2016

Business calls for resilient investments to curb disaster losses

The UNISDR Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilience Societies has called for risks posed by natural and man-made hazards to be put front and centre in investment choices, in order to curb disaster-related economic damage around the globe.

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The Seychelles capital Victoria is home to key national infrastructure whose tsunami-readiness was tested during September's IOWave16 drill

Update

2 October 2016

Tsunami drill teaches Seychelles life-saving lessons

A multinational tsunami drill in the Indian Ocean has taught Seychelles key lessons about how to save lives in the event that a potentially deadly wave strikes in the future, according to senior officials in the island nation.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Africa

Warning signs are a critical way to raise public awareness of the risk of tsunamis. Israel dotted its coast with them in the run-up to an exercise this year. (Photo: National Emergency Management Authority of Israel)

Update

28 September 2016

Public awareness key to curbing tsunami risk

Scientists and disaster risk experts from the Mediterranean and beyond have vowed to step up efforts to raise awareness among the general public of how to react to the threat of tsunamis.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Europe & Central Asia

Update

27 September 2016

Europe to strengthen tsunami alert system

Nations on the North Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black Seas have decided to bolster their tsunami warning systems by giving France, Greece, Italy and Turkey a regionwide alert role.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Europe & Central Asia

Authorities inspect rubble at a collapsed building in Dakar (Photo: DPC)

Update

19 September 2016

Senegal embraces technology in disaster risk reduction

The government of Senegal is harnessing cutting-edge information and communications technology to manage and reduce disaster risk, with the aim of curbing deaths and economic losses caused by natural and man-made hazards in the West African nation.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Africa

The US National Guard is taking part in flood rescue operations across Louisiana (Photo: US Department of Defense)

Update

17 August 2016

Major boost for US flood forecasting

The United States launched a new forecasting tool designed to revolutionize flood management across the country as the state of Louisiana struggles with record rains and floods.

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Floodwaters in Denham Springs, Louisiana, on August 13 (Photo: Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development)

Update

16 August 2016

USA’s worst disaster since Sandy?

The state of Louisiana is in the grip of what looks set to be the worst disaster in the United States since Superstorm Sandy four years ago, underlining the critical role of reducing risk before disaster strikes.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

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