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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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MoU between IRDR host RADI and European JRC
02 July 2015
On the sidelines of the 17th China-EU Summit, Professor Huadong Guo, Director-General of the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RADI) and Vladimír Šucha, Director-General of the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) signed a new coll
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All-day seminar “Changing with the Climate” co-organised by AFPCN (IRDR France)
01 July 2015
Jointly organized by Conseil général de l’économie (CGE) and Association française de prévention des catastrophes naturelles (AFPCN) – which functions as IRDR National Committee for France, an open and public study day on 30 June under the title « Changer
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IRDR SC member Djillali Benouar at GEM Governing Board meeting
29 June 2015
This summer’s Governing Board meeting of the Global Earthquake Model (GEM), took place on 25-26 June 2015 in Pavia, Italy. GEM has been a long-standing partner of IRDR and aims to effectively contribute to enable commitments to disaster risk reduction und
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IRDR's R. Klein addresses Royal Society of London's post-Sendai meeting
26 June 2015
As part of its PolicyLab program, on Wednesday 24 June, the Royal Society London brought together a panel of international experts that included Ms. Margareta Wahlström, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction an
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Bishkek: IRDR Germany / DKKV work with ISDR Kyrgyzstan on capacity building
25 June 2015
An event was held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on 25 June 2015, jointly organized by the local National Platform for DRR and the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Kyrgyz Republic, and the German National Platform for Disaster Reduction (DKKV), which func
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IPO welcomes visitors from the UK, Belgium, and China
24 June 2015
Two sets of visitors dropped by the IPO Wednesday afternoon to learn more about IRDR’s research programme. First a group of specialists from the UK and China that focus on agriculture and insects visited; they were followed immediately by a delegation fro
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IRDR has a strong presence at the 26th IUGG General Assembly
23 June 2015
The IRDR programme is well represented at the 26th IUGG General Assembly held in Prague, the Czech Republic, from 22 June to 2 July 2015. The scientific part of the meeting was themed “Earth and Environmental Sciences for Future Generation”. Several IRDR
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IRDR’s R. Klein speaks at WMO-WWRP event on seasonal to sub-seasonal predictability of monsoons
22 June 2015
In the context of the MoU between IRDR and WWRP/WCRP’s SERA Working Group, R. Klein attended and spoke at the workshop on Sub-seasonal to Seasonal (S2S) predictability of monsoons, held on 22 - 24 June 2015 at the National Institute of Meteorological Rese
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IRDR Supports strengthened Role of S&T at ISDR Asia Partnership Meeting
20 June 2015
The first ISDR Asia Partnership (IAP) meeting post-Sendai was held on 3-5 June 2015 in Bangkok, Thailand. IRDR was represented by IRDR Science Committee (SC) member, S.H.M. Fakhruddin, and Executive Director, Rudiger Klein, for the first and second half o
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Beijing: International Workshop on global geo-information for sustainability science
19 June 2015
This international workshop held in Beijing on 9-10 June 2015 was convened jointly with a number of ICSU-related Chinese networks and organisations, and others, such as the National Disaster Reduction Center of China, the National Geomatics Center of Chin
