Disaster Reduction: It Could Save Your Life

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Channel: United Nations · 2018 · News & Politics

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Between 2005 and 2014, 700,000 people have died in disaster events worldwide. A total of 1.7 billion people have been affected. Economic losses in major disaster events over the last decade come to $1.4 trillion. In 2015, United Nations member states adopted the Sendai Framework which maps out a broad, people-centred approach to disaster risk reduction until the year 2030.
  
Interviews:       
Dr. Kamal Lochan Mishra
Chief General Manager, Odisha State Disaster Management Authority

Shashi
Villager, Ganjam District, Orissa

Mami Mizutori
Head, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) 

Ricardo de la Crus Musalem
Director General, Civil Protection

Daniel Monroy Fuentes
Director of Innovation, Planning and Continuity of Operations, Secretariat of the Interior, Mexico 
 
Hirokazu Nagata
Chair, NPO Plus Arts
 
 
Partners:   
UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)
The Japan Foundation
NPO Plus Arts
Parsons School of Design

UN in Action No. 1591

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