The International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, held each year on 13 October, celebrates how people and communities around the world are reducing their exposure to natural hazards. Although it is ...

underscoring the urgent need to shift from reactive disaster response to proactive disaster risk reduction (DRR). The economic toll of these disasters is staggering. Hurricane Helene ...

Together with the World Health Organization Sasakawa Health Prize and the UN Environment Programme Sasakawa Environment Prize, the United Nations Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction is one of ...

Senator Loren Legarda challenged the status quo in disaster risk reduction, calling on people to be more proactive in ...

MANILA, Philippines — Artificial intelligence has the potential to enhance disaster risk reduction efforts, especially for countries heavily impacted by natural hazards, global experts said.

MANILA, Philippines — Disaster risk reduction efforts in the Philippines serve as “a lighthouse to the rest of the [Asia-Pacific] region and the world,” a United Nations official said on the ...

“We must significantly increase our investments and develop financing mechanisms in disaster risk reduction. Sustained and predictable data and financing would help address disaster risks better ...

While the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 is the roadmap for Disaster Risk Reduction action, other critical global agendas cannot be implemented without considering Disaster ...