🤔 How to improve the lives of persons with #disabilities? 💡 Why not simply ask them?
Including persons with disabilities in decision-making is the best way to ensure better, more inclusive #DRR policies. Join #COSP16 conference on disabilities! 👉 ow.ly/oqNc50ONR8h
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#UN Office for #Disaster #Risk Reduction, dedicated to building disaster #resilience and tackling #climatechange through implementation of the Sendai Framework
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Meet ANDI – a mannequin who walks, sweats, and shivers, helping researchers understand how heat stresses the body.
With heat waves becoming more frequent and intense, this research could prove vital, informing better heat mitigation strategies.
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Risks and global problems are connected, so instead of dealing with them separately, we can devise solutions that tackle multiple issues simultaneously. What are nexus approaches? Research Fellow & Academic Associate at explains it in this #Riskepedia video📽️
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Congratulations & Mayor on today’s global recognition as an #MCR2030 #ResilienceHub for your inspiring leadership on #resilience #DRR & commitment to help other municipalities tackle the #ClimateEmergency
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Indigenous and traditional knowledge can help #StopTheSpiral of disasters. They are part of the agile and flexible systems necessary to build resilience in today’s complex 🌎.
Learn more on #IndigenousKnowledge and #DRR in the #GAR2022 👉 undrr.org/gar2022-our-wo
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📢 Multi-hazard early warning systems enable timely action to reduce disaster risks. Our new Words Into Action guide lays out principles and practical steps for effective, end-to-end, people-centred MHEWS.
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#EarlyWarningsForAll
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Asia-Pacific is the world’s most disaster-prone region, and cascading and compounding risks make disasters like floods, earthquakes and droughts more destructive.
Here are 6️⃣ ways to better manage cascading and compounding risks 👇
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The proliferation of #misinformation and #disinformation in the digital space is causing grave global harm. In disaster contexts, it can costs lives and hamper response.
Read Secretary General proposals for a Code of Conduct ➡️ ow.ly/xu3u50OLPrx
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🌐 FREE ONLINE COURSE
and have developed a leadership module focusing on:
🔸 implementing disaster risk reduction
🔸 climate change adaptation
🔸 integrated planning
This two-hour course is free of charge and open to everyone ➡️ ow.ly/Q2i950OLxaQ
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At the peak of the monsoon season, 10% of #Pakistan was flooded.
A total of 8.2 million displacements were recorded, making it the largest disaster displacement event globally in the last decade.
Read more in #GRID2023: internal-displacement.org/grid2023
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💧Water infrastructure must be built to last so it does not fail when disaster strikes
Read more 👉 bit.ly/3g8WrVZ
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Despite recent progress made in #DRR, the danger of leaving hundreds of communities behind is real🚨.
Only 1/2 of 🌏 is covered by #EarlyWarning systems: it’s time to do better ✊
#EarlyWarningForAll!
👉 iddrr.undrr.org
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#Heatwaves already account for some of the deadliest disasters on record, causing untold suffering and displacement.
Read more on and #ExtremeHeat report: bit.ly/3VicOT7
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For DRR professionals, having role models is key – so too is the opportunity to be one.
Role models offer guidance, insight, and inspiration along an individual’s career path.
More about career barriers & motivations for women & men working in #DRR - undrr.org/quick/78001
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This reforestation initiative in Bangladesh is enhancing #DRR while empowering Rohingya refugees to support their families.
Watch here: bit.ly/3h1nCSL
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Disasters discriminate! They disproportionately affect those most at risk.
#DRR policies and plans must consider the needs women, children, youth, persons with disabilities, poor people, migrants, indigenous peoples, and older persons. 👉 ow.ly/5gi550OJPeF
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Is your city a spongy city? 🧽
Natural infrastructure can help absorb rainfall and prevent urban flooding 🌊
#FloodPrevention #SpongeCity #NaturalInfrastructure
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Persons with disabilities often have unique skills and resilience to meet the challenges of daily life that equip them to lead in disaster situations.
Inclusive disaster risk reduction means #ResilienceForAll.
Read more about inclusion at the MTR: ow.ly/4hav50OJP7h
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“It is time to recognize that there is no such thing as a natural disaster. We are doing it to ourselves,” shared while reflecting on the #SendaiFramework 👇 bit.ly/3vkDcPA
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With #climatechange driving worsening wildfires, machine learning and statistical models allow firefighters to map out in advance how and where blazes might spread.
Every improvement is crucial as climate change increases fire risks.
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These 5 countries have some of the most advanced tsunami warning systems in the world. Being tsunami ready takes good governance. Is your community tsunami ready?
#Plan2Survive
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Smoke from Canadian #wildfires continues to be transported south by winds into the U.S. resulting in moderate to unhealthy air quality across parts of the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Ohio Valley, and Midwest on Friday.
Read more 👉 noaa.gov/news/widesprea
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Congrats to Makati, , , Ajman, & on WCCD ISO 37123 Resilient City certifications! They'll join MCR2030 via @WCCDcities & 's Pilot Project. These cities lead in data-driven resilience. #ResilientCities #MCR2030
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🔥 #Wildfire occurrence, characteristics and impacts are closely linked to other hazards: droughts, heat waves and extreme weather events can influence fire intensity, severity, duration, size and controllability of wildfires.
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Since 2015 the number of #blackouts events has been increasing, mainly during the summer, when the electricity demand is at its peak and #hazards stress electrical grids. Life can be saved by investing in the resilience of electrical grids 👉 ow.ly/y3op50OJ5AU
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🇺🇸🇨🇦 The current #wildfire and smoke crisis in the US and Canada illustrate the negative feedback loop of climate change, wildfires and health risks.
We need urgent #ClimateAction now and investment in fire risk reduction measures.
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Know your hazards: 🌊Flash floods are highly localized in space and restricted in time. This means very little time for warning.
Learn more about floods and reducing their risks on 👇preventionweb.net/knowledge-base
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The General Assembly declared access to a clean, healthy and sustainable #Environment, a universal #HumanRight.
“The resolution will help reduce environmental injustices, close protection gaps and empower people" - said .
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Traditional earthen pots work as a “fridge for the rural poor”, playing a vital role in providing access to cool water during heat waves. Such traditional knowledge addresses climate risks with tried-and-tested solutions.
Read more 👉 preventionweb.net/quick/78263
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In the #Caribbean, 19 governments established the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency. Having a regional strategy, common indicators and shared disaster risk reduction priorities helps countries overcome capacity and financial constraints👉ow.ly/E5Pk50OHYBl
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Disasters do not impact everyone equally ⚖️
Low- and middle-income countries suffer the most severe economic losses from disasters globally.
Now it's time to #StopTheSpiral 🌀
Find out more in the #GAR2022 Report 👉 bit.ly/3xFrK4d
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The floods in Ukraine are a man-made disaster with dramatic and cascading impacts: displacement, environmental destruction, agricultural losses. Attacks against civilians and critical civilian infrastructure must stop.
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My statement on the destruction in the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam in Ukraine today.
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🌆 A resilient city is a risk-proofed city. Urbanization, done well, can create an environment where everyone can thrive.
Watch the video and read more 👉 mcr2030.undrr.org
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📖 Good governance and preparation are crucial to reducing the vulnerability of critical infrastructure.
How do we define critical infrastructure?
expert Sophie van der Heijden explains it in this #Riskepedia video!
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Study reveals that the intense heatwave experienced in April in Bangladesh🇧🇩, India🇮🇳, Thailand🇹🇭, and Lao PDR🇱🇦, was driven by #climatechange. It would have been impossible to occur in climate conditions not warmed by human activities, the study says ➡️ ow.ly/WhiH50OGPxJ
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The highest tsunami wave ever recorded could have easily crashed over the Eiffel Tower 🌊 🌊🌊 Luckily it broke in the middle of Alaska where hardly anyone lived.
Careful planning of coastal development saves lives ➡️ bit.ly/3blAXSZ
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Studying the clues left by ancient earthquakes is helping geologists to model when future ones might occur 🪨 🤔
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/3eR1qx2
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Find out more on what you can do for Nature through this free online course by and and supported by . It is offered in 8 languages and currently has registered participants from 190+ countries. Join us! #NatureforResilience ➡️ pedrr.org/mooc
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At the #SendaiFramework Midterm Review, experts and stakeholders urged for greater inclusion of women, persons with disabilities, underrepresented communities at all levels, at all stages of #DRR.
👉 ow.ly/82ph50OC488 #ResilienceForAll
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