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IRDR Launches New Newsletter – June 2025 Issue Now Available!
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14 July 2025
IRDR Publications and Activities for GP2025
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27 May 2025
Professor Saini Yang Appointed as the New Executive Director of IRDR
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08 July 2024
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4th Asian Workshop on Psychological Intervention After Disasters 9-12 November 2015
07 July 2015
The 4th International Workshop on Psychological Intervention After Disasters (PIAD) will be conducted in Taipei on 9-12 November 2015, and will be co-hosted by IRDR International Centre of Excellence (IRDR-ICoE) at the Academy of Sciences, located in Taip
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Nominations for the 7th Cycle of the Zayed International Prize for the Environment
06 July 2015
Nominations for the Zayed International Prize for the Environment are open until 30 September 2015. The prizes, worth in total $1 million USD are awarded every two years, in the name of the late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan. Prizes will be awarded f
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Science and the road to transformation after COP21
06 July 2015
[caption id="attachment_10251" align="alignright" width="200"] ICSU: Demonstrating system effects of Climate Change[/caption]The International Council for Science (ICSU) convened a side-event on the eve of the climate science conference Our Common Future
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7th Africa Working Group Meeting on DRR meets 21 - 23 Jul 2015 in Cameroon
03 July 2015
The Africa Working Group (AWG) on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) meets bi-annually to take stock of the progress made regionally on the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) and the Africa Regional Strategy for DRR and its Extended Program
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Novel ways of sharing disaster knowledge
03 July 2015
Emma Visman and Fiona Fletcher – both researchers affiliated with the host institution of the IRDR International Centre for Excellence on Risk Interpretation and Action (IRDR ICoE RIA) – recently released a blog for the UKCDS website (the UK Collaborative
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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
