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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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Canadian climate scientist is new President of the International Council for Science (ICSU)
03 September 2014
Professor Gordon McBean, an internationally recognized meteorologist and climate change expert, today became the new President of the International Council for Science (ICSU).At the conclusion of the organization's 31st General Assembly in Auckland, McBea
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South African mathematician elected as next President of the International Council for Science (ICSU)
03 September 2014
South African mathematician elected as next President of the International Council for Science Professor Daya Reddy, an internationally recognized mathematician from South Africa, today became the new President-elect of the International Council for Scien
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IRDR Host Institution among global top-10 UN Big Data Climate Challenge winners
02 September 2014
The United Nations (UN) announced the winners of the “Big Data Climate Challenge” today, revealing that a project titled “Big Earth Observation Data for Climate Change Research” by the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RADI), Chinese Academy
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Call for Applications: CDKN Climate Compatible Development Impact Research Fund
01 September 2014
The launch of CDKN’s new international research fund aims to fill priority research gaps and address key questions relating to aspects of climate compatible development (CCD). There are affinities with IRDR's research agenda on resilience and vulnerabilit
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IRDR Strategy Meeting of ICSU bodies
31 August 2014
On the sidelines of the ICSU General Assembly in Auckland, IRDR convened a strategy meeting of ICSU bodies. Facilitated by IRDR Executive Director R. Klein, the meeting heard a presentation by ICSU’s incoming president and IRDR founding chair, Gordon McBe
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IDRC Davos: IRDR SC Djillali Benouar speaks on the role of S&T in DRR
30 August 2014
The 5th International Disaster and Risk Conference (5th IDRC) in Davos last 24-28 August under the theme "Integrative Risk Management - The role of science, technology & practice” featured a special panel on the role of Science and Technology in Disas
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Science advice to governments comes of age at Auckland conference
29 August 2014
Responding to the increasingly global nature of societal challenges, practitioners of science advice to governments formed a global network to share practice and strengthen their ties, at the first global conference on science advice to governments, which
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Gathering of government science advisors in Auckland (NZ) calls for greater openness of scientific communities to interaction with policy-making
28 August 2014
Convened by the International Council for Science (ICSU) and hosted by New Zealand’s Chief Science Advisor, Sir Peter Gluckman, this first global conference on science advice to governments brought together some 200 participants including science advisors
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AAAS Science and Diplomacy workshop hears on Disaster Risk Science as a core area for collaboration
27 August 2014
Co-chaired by Dr. Vaughan Turekian, Editor-in-Chief of the AAAS Journal Science and Diplomacy, and the CE of New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the science and diplomacy symposium held in Auckland, New Zealand today, 27th August, explored
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IRDR Colombia promotes interaction between academia and DRM practitioners
26 August 2014
The National Committee of Disaster Risk Knowledge: National Unit for Disaster Risk Management of the Presidency of the Republic of Colombia (Unidad Nacional de Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres, UNGRD), had been approved by the IRDR Scientific Committee in
