When: Monday, 23 May, 2022 – Tuesday, 24 May, 2022 / Hybrid Online and Bali Indonesia Organizer(s): Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the United Nations Development Programme – Headquarters United Nations Office for
Date: 15 June 2022, 09:00 – 17:30 (GMT +2) The EC Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre (DRMKC) in collaboration with DG ECHO is organizing a virtual training session on the Risk Data Hub on the
When: 23 May 2022 – 28 May 2022 The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction is the main global forum to assess and discuss progress on the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk
When: 4 May 2022 – 6 May 2022 The International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (ICDRI) is CDRI’s flagship event bringing together policymakers, researchers and practitioners from across the world to strengthen the global discourse
When: April 4, 2022 1:15-2:45 pm Brussels Time Cities around the world are battling the Covid-19 pandemic against a backdrop of various shocks, pressures, and rising vulnerabilities, all while attempting to prioritise justice, the economy,
When: 16 March 2022 / 08:00-10:00 EST A side event at the 66th session of the Commission on the Status of Women on the theme “Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and
Dates: 16-17 March 2022 The pandemic has had a deep and profound impact throughout Southeast Asia. Many of the region’s hard-won gains in reducing poverty, creating jobs, and enhancing health and wellbeing have been reversed,
Date: 28 February 2022 – 11 March 2022 Online The first Weather and Society Conference is being organised by the Societal and Economic Research Applications (SERA) Working Group of the WMO World Weather Research Program
This checklist is a companion tool to the Words into Action Guideline Disaster Displacement: How to Reduce Risk, Address Impacts and Strengthen Resilience (Words into Action on Disaster Displacement) published by the United Nations Office
Date: 8 February 2022 – 10 February 2022 Registration: 1 December 2021 – 31 January 2022 Losses from extreme weather events increased globally over the last decades and are expected to further increase in the
Date: 17 December 2021 Time: 10:00-11:30 Caribbean Time (AST) This webinar aims to provide an overview of the comprehensive climate and disaster risk management (CRM) and to introduce a course to capacitate participants on CRM that
Date: 20 October 2021 Time: 15:30 – 17:00 CEST The COVID-19 pandemic and climate crisis has demonstrated that governments are critically under-prepared to tackle the systemic nature of risk and are underinvesting in and under-prioritizing
Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 Time: Oct 13, 2021 11:00 AM in Panama(International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction) Core Topics Disaster risk and unsustainable development processes The privatization of benefits and the socialization of risks
Date: 16 September 2021 Time: from 12:00 – 13:00 in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna The climate emergency is the biggest economic, social, and environmental threat facing the planet and humanity today. We are at
Date: 15 September 2021 (Wed)Time: 9:30 New Delhi | 11:00 Bangkok | 13:00 Incheon/Tokyo | 16:00 Suva Duration: 1 hour Disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies can help guide cities towards sound actions to improve disaster resilience. As
Date: 1 November – 4 November 2021 The Government of Jamaica, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean, and the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management
Date: 23 September 2021 (Thu)Time: 10:30 London | 11:30 Geneva/Cairo | 12:30 Nairobi | 16:30 Bangkok | 17:30 Beijing | 18:30 Incheon Event Description Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) has joined the programme Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030),
Date: 30 Aug – 02 Sep 2021 Humanity’s greatest societal, technological and political challenges are exposed at the intersection of science and policy, and the COVID-19 pandemic has made them even more visible. From increasing
Date: 23-27 August World Water Week is the leading conference on global water issues and in 2021 it will be held as a digital event 23-27 August. The Week attracts participants from more than 130 countries and with many different professional
Date: 28 July 2021 (Wed)Time: 9:00 London | 10:00 Geneva | 15:00 Bangkok | 17:00 IncheonDuration: 1.5 hours Organizers:• European Investment Bank (EIB)• Global Covenant of Mayors (GCoM)• World Bank (WB)• UNDRR Global Education and Training Institute (GETI)• Making
Date: July 20 2021, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm (BST) The production of food faces multiple, significant challenges, none more so than adapting to a changing climate, with higher global temperatures, more droughts, less reliable
Date: Jul 14, 2021 05:00 PM in Mumbai, Kolkata, New Delhi (13:30 – 14:45 (CET)) ‘Disaster Risk Finance for Public Infrastructure Assets in the Developing World: Opportunities and Challenges’ is the first dialogue in the
Date: 13 July 2021, 15:00-16:30 (Japan Time, GMT+9) Despite continued efforts by member countries to implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR), the damage caused by disasters has increased in recent years due
Date: 12 Jul 2021, 15:00 – 16:30 BST The UK Space Agency’s International Partnership Programme (IPP) will be delivering a series of regional webinars, aimed at promoting our projects’ capabilities and outcomes/impacts across climate change,
Date: 17 June 2021, 15:00 CEST Droughts have deep, widespread and underestimated impacts on societies, ecosystems, and economies. They incur costs that are borne disproportionately by the most vulnerable people. The extensive impacts of drought
Date: 21-24 June 2021 The theme of this year’s symposium is Strengthening inclusive partnerships across the GEO Work Programme (GWP). The aim of the Symposium is to share successful practices and identify ways to accelerate the delivery
Date and Time: June 15, 2021 (Tuesday)18:00-19:30 (JST) GMT+9 The discussions of the first seminar focus on “Investing in Disaster Risk Reduction for a Resilient Society” to offer insights that contribute to governments and stakeholders’
The importance of setting up mechanisms to ensure collaboration and coordination of work on disaster-related statistics across disciplines and organizations has been recognized on national and international level, including the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC)
Date: 20 May 2021, 12:00 – 13:30 CEST Climate disasters and extreme weather conditions along with the secondary effects of climate change like food insecurity and violent conflicts are expected to raise the numbers of
Cities and their residents are at the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than half of humanity live in urban settings. Conditions in cities have fanned the pandemic and the pandemic has deeply impacted cities.
May 10, 2021 – h. 11:00 am CEST Recently, at the European scale, research and innovation initiatives have been launched to address challenges and options for NbS, in relation to climate change adaptation and disaster
As the world is grappling with the challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, many communities are experiencing the impact of compounded disasters, with COVID-19 and natural hazards stretching resources and testing coping capacities. Building
Cities are hubs for ideas, commerce, culture, science, productivity, social development and much more. At their best, cities have enabled people to advance socially and economically. Now that half of the world’s population live in
This Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development 2021 side event highlights the challenges faced by and opportunities available to the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) that have recently graduated or are in the process of graduating from
Women’s leadership brings essential knowledge, skills, resources and experience to emergency response and resilience building. When women are involved in the development and implementation of COVID-19 response plans they are more likely to consider the
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has confirmed the close link between health and disaster risk reduction. This calls for a reflection on past practices, current capacities and plans for increasing investments to strengthen implementation of International
The Bath Spa University (UK) ‘Hazard, Risk and Disaster’ Research Lecture Series 2020-2021, brings international speakers together with an audience to discuss the latest research, policy and practice, addressing DRR and climate change adaptation themes.
Co-organised by the Pacific Resilience Partnership’s Technical Working Group (TWG) on Human Mobility and the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement Every year, more than 50,000 people in the Pacific are forced to flee
Access to finance remains one of the biggest hurdles to reducing risk and build resilience. This webinar aims to introduce useful tools and resources to enhance local governments’ capacity in developing bankable projects for financing
Our planet is getting warmer, which has a growing impact on our societies and economies. We need to adapt to a new, more extreme climate. The online international Climate Adaptation Summit (CAS) 2021 on 25
The International Recovery Forum 2021 will feature discussions on lessons for governance, planning, financing, and other key areas which can be applied to the COVID-19 recovery. Building on the IRP COVID-19 Recovery Policy Brief, panelists
This virtual event will feature Sasakawa Award winner and Principal Secretary of the Prime Minister of India, Dr. P.K. Mishra, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mami Mizutori; and other high-level participants
Urban safety is a fundamental value that supports citizens’ lives and urban competitiveness. During recent natural and social disasters, including the COVID-19 pandemic, strengthening urban resilience has emerged as a critical policy task. Global environmental
When: 19 November 2020, 09:00 GMT The African Development Bank’s Clim-Dev Africa Special Fund (CDSF) invites you to a webinar to discuss the opportunities and constraints around improved flood forecasting and early warning systems in
The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) is pleased to announce the “United Nations International Conference on Space-based Technologies for Disaster Risk Reduction – ‘Lessons learned during the unprecedented pandemic situation”, to be held
Over the past 20 years disasters have affected 4.4 billion people, caused USD 2 trillion of damage and killed 1.3 million people. Disasters have affected people living in developing countries and, in particular, the most
Tsunamis are, thankfully, rare events, but they do happen. They are often more sudden and deadly than any other hazard, claiming thousands of lives and causing massive economic losses in just a few minutes, with
Professor Ilan Kelman will join us on 20th October 2020 to talk about how our actions and the choices we make, would turn natural hazards into catastrophes. Professor Ilan Kelman is the author of #DisasterByChoice.
The United Nations General Assembly has designated 13 October as International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction to promote a global culture of disaster risk reduction. It is an opportunity to acknowledge the progress being made
The Australian Disaster Resilience Conference presents Knowledge Week will be taking place virtually. Knowledge Week will be held over the course of four days (24 – 27 August 2020), with a variety of sessions and special
Early warning systems are a major component in disaster risk reduction. Despite forecasting system advances, hydro-meteorological and geo-hazards continue to claim thousands of lives, while wreaking irreparable damage upon homes, businesses and critical infrastructure. Research
Our climate is changing. Our world is getting warmer and the impact on societies and sectors is growing. The need to adapt to these new climate extremes is driving actions: to connect challenges to solutions.
Discover how Pacific Island countries are increasing financial preparedness for disasters. The Disaster Risk Finance in the Pacific e-learning will boost your understanding of disaster risk finance instruments and how they help countries prepare for
Provides key insights into a range of innovative Disaster Risk Finance (DRF) projects across the globe. Also provides fundamentals of DRF to raise an understanding of the purpose, scope, development impact and basic principles of
