UNDRR News

New paper builds the foundations of a resilience taxonomy to channel trillions into projects to reduce climate impacts.

The UNDRR ROAS and the AUD led a session titled "Powerful Partnerships Equal Powerful Impact,” at the Europe, Middle East, and Africa Accreditation Conference, to showcase the power of partnerships to drive positive change.

Thailand has made considerable progress towards improving urban resilience through the ‘Making Cities Resilient 2030’ (MCR2030) initiative, a collaborative effort involving the United Nations, local governments, academia and other partners.

The 11 participating municipalities received a certification that recognises the completion of Stage A and marks the beginning of Stage B, which opens the process of developing a Resilience Plan for the year 2024.

Today ECOWAS inaugurated its new Disaster Operations Centre in Abuja to strengthen regional coordination and improved data and information exchange among its Member States.

As part of UNDRR commitment to climate action, an event was organized at Bonn Climate Change Conference led by the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and Head of UNDRR Mami Mizutori.

An estimated 111 million people are better protected against climate-related hazards thanks to early warning systems put into place in 2022 by the Climate Risk Early Warning Systems (CREWS) Initiative.

Trust is critical to effective risk communication. Where communities feel they are not receiving or able to understand or trust the warnings being disseminated, they are less likely to take action in the face of a hazard.

Thanks to anticipatory action and investment in early warning efforts by the Government of Mozambique with support of the United Nations, the number of deaths and people displaced by Cyclone Freddy is lower than in past comparable cyclones.

The Portuguese National Platform on DRR’s working group on Resilient Cities met in Loulé, with certificates handed to 51 local governments for their efforts in building local resilience as part of the Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) initiative.