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 ...

On First Anniversary of Sendai Framework Adoption, Deputy Secretary-General Says Disaster Risk Reduction Plays Key Role in Saving Lives, Leaving No One Behind The United Nations is scaling up ...

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 ...

Japan has continued its leadership role in the area of disaster preparedness by successfully hosting the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai from March 14-18, 2015. This ...

SENDAI—An international conference on disaster preparedness will be held for the first time in three years and four months in this city that suffered damage in the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.

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 ...

HE the Permanent Representative of Qatar to the UN Sheikha Alya Ahmed bin Saif al-Thani participated in the resumed part of the High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on the midterm review of the ...

Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister P K Mishra has affirmed India's commitment to the Sendai Framework for disaster risk reduction and called for increased international collaboration on ...

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 ...