The Philippines hosted the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction, which marks the country’s implementation of the Sendai Framework. The United Nations says it is the first ...

Over two days, May 18-19, the UN General Assembly will conclude the mid-term review (MTR) of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030) at a high-level meeting in New York. Member ...

An 84-year-old woman sits outside her room, where she lives alone, at a temporary housing complex for evacuees from the crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which followed the March 2011 ...

Senior Research Fellow, Dr Swenja Surminski, reflects on the third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) in Sendai, Japan (14-18 March). More than 5,000 government ...

The climate crisis is upon us, and we are only just beginning to endure the consequences of the neglect we have shown to our planet. Melting ice caps, rising sea levels, the proliferation of extreme ...

More than 900 participants from national and local governments, academia, private sector, international organizations, and civil society from around the world gathered in Sendai, Japan from 26-28 ...

The United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) has just concluded in Sendai, Japan. Swenja Surminski reports on the final agreement. Just before midnight on Wednesday 18 th ...

Dehradun: To ensure timely achievement of targets under UN's Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015–2030), the state's disaster management.

Situated along both the Pacific typhoon belt and the so-called Ring of Fire, the Philippines has a long history of dealing with the devastating impacts of typhoons, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and ...

Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister P K Mishra reaffirmed India's dedication to the Sendai Framework for disaster risk reduction at the G-20 DRRWG ministerial meeting in Brazil. He discussed ...

Situated along both the Pacific Typhoon Belt and the so-called ring of fire, the Philippines has a long history of dealing with the devastating impacts of typhoons, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, ...