Upcoming: World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction 14-18 March 2015

This week ten years ago, the last World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction was in full swing. Today, 22 January 2015, marks the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters.

By coincidence, today also marks 50 days to go before the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) taking place in Sendai, Japan on 14-18 March 2015.

To mark the occasion, the world's leading distributor of Op-Eds, Project Syndicate, has made available an opinion piece by Margareta Wahlstrom, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction: http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/un-conference-for-disaster-risk-reduction-sendai-hfa-by-margareta-wahlstr-m-2015-01

UNEP's Role 

UNEP is a signatory party to the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters and accelerates its implementation through evidence-based advocacy, capacity development, partnerships, and field-testing of innovative Eco-DRR solutions that promote sustainable and resilient development.

More generally on Disaster Risk Reduction, UNEP works to prevent and reduce the impacts of disasters on vulnerable communities and countries through improved ecosystems management. With its solid technical expertise and direct field experience, UNEP integrates an ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR) approach into development and climate change adaptation strategies. 

Find out more here on UNEP and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), and the UNEP-EC Partnership on DRR.