The UN Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) concluded its thirteenth and final session in New York this 19 July. As the OWG on the SDGs released a definitive list of recommended overall goals and related targets — some experts say that political pragmatism threatens to sideline scientific advice in the final …
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Hosted at RADI’s Kashgar Campus in Xinjiang Province, China, the 5th edition of the SCO summer schools, under the title “Remote Sensing and Sustainable Development” from 20 July – 6 August 2014, builds on the 2012 “Kashgar Declaration” which had outlined the strategy to promote research and applications in Remote Sensing (RS) among the Shanghai Cooperation …
In this peer review, the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) commends Japan for increasingly exerting global leadership and influence in areas such as disaster risk reduction and universal health coverage, as well as for launching a series of new global initiatives in climate change finance and women’s empowerment, which should further enhance its influence and …
A delegation led by ICSU as the organising partner of the UN Science and Technology Major Group took part in the first meeting of the preparatory committee for the 3rd UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction. The two-day meeting in Geneva this week is preparing the March 2015 conference in Sendai, Japan, where governments …
The first session of the Preparatory Committee (PrepCom1) of the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction was held from 14-15 July 2014 in Geneva. IRDR Executive Director Rüdiger Klein was asked to lead, on behalf of ICSU, the delegation of the Science and Technology Major Group (STMG) at this meeting of UN member …
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Preparations for the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction gathered momentum as more than 600 government representatives and experts from around the world convened in Geneva for the First Session of an Intergovernmental Preparatory Committee. Experts representing a broad coalition of relevant stakeholders from around the world are attending the two-day preparatory meeting …
DKKV, which operates as IRDR’s German National Committee, and which co-chairs the Working Group on Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction of the “European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction” (EFDRR), was one of the leaders of the recent study on “How does Europe link DRR and CCA?” “Since its creation in November 2010, the …
Djillali Benouar, Professor of Earthquake Engineering and Disaster Risk Reduction from the University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB) is PreventionWeb’s Expert of the Week from 14 – 20 July. The said week’s session will focus on Forensic Investigations of Disasters. Djillali’s expertise is on Earthquake Engineering and Disaster Risk Reduction. He has published more …
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IRDR SC member Susan L. Cutter, together with colleagues from the University of South Carolina, Columbia/SC, USA, has published new research on “Exposure, Social Vulnerability and Recovery Disparities in New Jersey after Hurricane Sandy”. The Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute (HVRI), Department of Geography, College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, …
The first session of the Preparatory Committee (PrepCom1) of the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction will be held over two days in Palais de Nations, Geneva, Switzerland from 14-15 July 2014, to review the organizational and substantive preparations for the Conference, approve the programme of work of the Conference, and propose rules …
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