#UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, dedicated to building disaster #resilience and tackling #climatechange through implementation of the Sendai Framework
🚰 💦 Water is at the heart of many disasters, but water can also guide us through crises.
Cooperation on water paves the way for cooperation on all shared challenges – including reducing disaster risk ➡️ ow.ly/MPSp50WCUY2#WordsIntoAction
📉 Disaster losses are spiralling out of control.
#GAR2025 reveals 3 downward spirals turning shocks into systemic crises — and how smart investments can break the cycle of disasters, debt & un-insurability.
🆕 Explore the UN flagship DRR report ➡️ ow.ly/JGno50VYQvo
💼 Discover new career opportunities in disaster risk reduction and resilience building – in the #PreventionWeb Jobs Digest 👉 ow.ly/iR2y50Z9TML
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Over 1 billion people live in informal settlements – facing the highest climate exposure.
The 2027 RISK Award funds community-driven solutions, with up to €100,000 for projects on climate resilience in informal settlements.
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Over 1 billion people live in informal settlements – facing the highest climate exposure.
The 2027 RISK Award funds community-driven solutions, with up to €100,000 for projects on climate resilience in informal settlements.
➡️ ow.ly/j7C350Z9s4Y#ResilienceStartsAtHome
🤝 Meaningful engagement in disaster risk reduction means involving people early, sustaining that engagement over time, and ensuring their contributions shape decisions and action.
🌐 The Sendai Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism – SEM – makes it happen. ➡️ ow.ly/IX1M50Z9nX8
⛈️ Poverty and climate disaster risks are deeply connected.🔥
Research by @UNDP, @HDRUNDP , @ophi_oxford shows that 1.1 billion are multidimensionally poor – deprived in several areas of life — & most live where climate hazards are rising.
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📢 Trusted communication in disasters can save lives.
Communication is a dynamic process, and is most effective when it can adapt and respond.
Explore UNDRR’s Disaster Risk Communication Hub for other vital aspects of public risk communication 👉 ow.ly/t7xj50Yn0SO
♿Persons with disabilities: 16% of the world's population, and frequently the most affected by disasters.
Inclusive social development leaves no one behind.
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The wetland that buffered the storm surge. The reef that absorbed the wave energy. The forest that slowed the flood.
These losses rarely appear in national loss data – but the new framework FRAME-ECO is here to change that.
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🇪🇺 🔥 Europe experienced a devastating 2025 wildfire season – wreaking havoc on landscapes, cities, and communities.
💡But we can step up long-term prevention efforts on wildfires and reduce risk before the flames ignite again. Here are 5️⃣ ways 👉 ow.ly/McfF50WGWtU
🌊 Can AI forecast floods – and save lives?
@GoogleAI’s Flood Hub can predict flood risk 7 days ahead - even with scarce data.
📡 Direct alerts save lives
🌍 Free, scalable & open-access
🤝 Co-designed with govts, UN agencies & NGOs
🐟🪸On #WorldOceansDay, a reminder that SDG 14 calls for us to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development – and that includes reducing ocean-related disaster risks.🐬
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