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Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the world’s leading provider of news and information, is committed to empowering people in need around the world with trusted information and free legal assistance. A registered charity in the United States and United Kingdom, the Foundation leverages the skills, values and expertise across Thomson Reuters to promote the rule of law, save lives in disasters and improve standards of journalism.

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The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.

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30 May 2019

Opinion: Let's seize the opportunity for resilience in storm-hit Mozambique

With Cyclone Idai devastating Mozambique, Mami Mizutori, the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for DRR, writes in this op-ed that the country should build resilience to prepare for worsening extreme weather associated with climate change.

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14 May 2019

Opinion: Disaster displacement is a 21st century challenge

Collecting more and better data can go a long way towards improving our understanding of the magnitude of disaster displacement, and how we manage the risks and impacts. This understanding is a crucial part of efforts to reduce the amount of people affected by disasters.

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29 April 2019

Opinion: Reducing disaster risk is a question of survival

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.

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11 December 2018

What if we knew the real costs of climate change?

There is no economic loss data for 63 percent of the disasters recorded over the last 20 years, and low-income countries are lacking even more at 87 percent. Capturing loss data will help factor risk information into infrastructure investment decisions, and it will also drive planning at the national and local level to improve risk reduction strategies.

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11 October 2018

Climate change is a major multiplier of disaster losses

Climate change is a major multiplier of disaster losses worldwide. According to a new report by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, there has been a doubling of extreme weather events in the last twenty years, which have experienced some of the hottest years on record. Measures to adapt to climate impacts are just as important as cutting emissions.

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11 September 2018

Opinion: Disaster-prone Asia must not cut corners on critical infrastructure

Damage to critical infrastructure is escalating the global cost of extreme weather events, but countries in Asia and the Pacific are suffering inordinately as the level and intensity of disaster events across the region continually raises the bar for resilience. The construction industry and those with planning oversight must therefore not ignore good practices.

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2 July 2018

Better risk management can reduce disaster displacement

With 11.4 million people displaced, South Asia and the Pacific Islands bore the brunt of disaster displacement in 2017. However, as will be seen at this week's Asian Ministerial Conference, India and Mongolia’s adoption of Sendai Framework values can be emulated by countries across the region because local level prevention yields an inclusive resilience dividend.

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20 June 2018

Hurricanes, floods and volcanoes bring Americas together to tackle risk

Twenty years after Hurricane Mitch claimed thousands of lives across Central America, it is now common practice for the countries of the Americas to come together every two years to discuss prevention and resilience. The upcoming conference in Colombia is the first of its kind to include participation from National Statistics Offices and parliamentarians.