4th World Landslide Forum was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, May 29 – June 2, 2017. The theme is “LANDSLIDE RESEARCH AND RISK REDUCTION FOR ADVANCING CULTURE OF LIVING WITH NATURAL HAZARDS”.

In the forum, Prof. Shuaib Lwasa, the Chair of IRDR Scientific Committee, on behalf of IRDR, signed on the ISDR-ICL SENDAI PARTNERSHIPS 2015-2025 FOR GLOBAL PROMOTION OF UNDERSTANDING AND REDUCING LANDSLIDE DISASTER RISK.

It is a  partnership for developing tools for Implementing and Monitoring the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Sustainable Development Goals.

The Partnerships will be reported and emerging challenges will be discussed every two years at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Geneva.

The International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) hosts the Sendai Partnerships 2015-2025 as a voluntary commitment to the United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, Sendai, Japan. The ICL Secretariat in Kyoto, Japan, serves as the Secretariat of the Sendai Partnerships.