The issues related to disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation are cross-cutting, and relevant to all of UNESCO’s fields of competence. With that in mind, UNESCO’s strategy for 2022 ...

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 ...

Natural Hazards Research Australia and insurer Suncorp have today released a discussion paper highlighting the power of the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...