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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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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
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Survey on regional implementation of S&T Roadmap
14 November 2019
IRDR together with APSTAAG are conducting a survey to track the progress of the Asia and Pacific regional implementation of the Sendai Framework Science Technology Roadmap from a wide range of stakeholders. The analyses of the survey will be presented at
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Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter | November 2019 Edition
06 November 2019
UN High Commissioner for Refugees: Climate Change and DisplacementClimate change and natural disasters can add to and worsen the threats that force people to flee across international borders. The interplay between climate, conflict, poverty and persecuti
