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Professor Saini Yang Appointed as the New Executive Director of IRDR
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08 July 2024 IRDR Introduction Video
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23 May 2023 Agreement on IRDR Phase II became effective on May 11 2023
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IRDR 2021 Conference to be held on 8-10 June 2021
01 June 2021
The title and topic of the IRDR 2021 Conference is Advancing Risk Science for Development Safety: 10 Years of IRDR -- Building a new risk research agenda for 2030 and beyond. The registration and participation of the Conference, please visit: http://confe
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Register for the launch of a new scientific report on hazards definition
20 July 2020
Register from: https://council.science/events/hazards-report/ The broad range and complex nature of hazards calls for a standardised fully-fledged characterization of hazards that serves as a basis for countries to assess and accordingly enhance thei
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Job Opening: UNDRR consultancy on DRR Research Agenda and Institutional Landscape
08 July 2020
Details and Application: https://careers.un.org/lbw/jobdetail.aspx?id=137741&Lang=en-US Posting Title:DRR Research Agenda and Institutional LandscapeDepartment/Office:United Nations Office for Disaster Risk ReductionDuty Station:GENEVAPosting Per
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Webinar: Could El Niño Long Range Warning System help countries manage the effects of severe weather events?
08 June 2020
Join us for a free webinar as we discuss this important matter - https://cutt.ly/LRWSwebinar Currently many countries are experiencing severe drought. Could the impacts of drought have been minimised with an effective long-range warning system (LRWS)
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Webinar | Transition from response to recovery 12 May 2020
04 May 2020
Join us for a webinar as we come together with to discuss the transition from response to recovery of COVID-19. Click here to register.
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UNDRR Initial COVID-19 Engagement Strategy and Communication Campaign
10 April 2020
The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak is an unprecedented event in modern human history, requiring the United Nations system to work as One UN to support countries.The UN Secretary-General has asked the international community to focus on three critical areas of
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IRDR Scientists's Viewpoint towards COVID-19
31 March 2020
2020 has become the year of coping with COVID-19.The WHO declared this as Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on 31th of January 2020, and finally a pandemic on 11th March 2020.IRDR Scientific Committee members contribute to the analy
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Call for participation: Global Congress on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction
02 March 2020
Global Congress on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction will be organized in Bhubaneswar on 9-10th Oct 2020. The congress aims to gather more than 500 DRR and Climate Change Professors, Researchers, Students, and Practitioner from United Nations, I
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HIWeather ICO visited IRDR IPO for further cooperation
14 November 2019
HIWeather International Coordination Office visited IRDR International Programme Office on 4 November 2019 for further collaboration. The High Impact Weather project (HIWeather) is a ten year activity within the World Weather Research Programm.The Executi
