Today SRSG Kamal Kishore met Ambassador Luigi Maria Vignali @ItalyUN_Geneva
🇮🇹 UNDRR is grateful for Italy’s partnership and steady leadership on #DRR, including support for:
📡 Early warning systems in Africa
🏔️ Resilience in the Western Balkans
⚖️ DRR and human rights
🇮🇹 UNDRR is grateful for Italy’s partnership and steady leadership on #DRR, including support for:
📡 Early warning systems in Africa
🏔️ Resilience in the Western Balkans
⚖️ DRR and human rights
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🌊A tsunami is on its way – you have to choose how to keep schools safe!🏘️
🎮Your choices could mean education... or destruction.
What choice will you make? 🛡️ Comment! 👇
Play Stop Disasters now 👉 ow.ly/L3sv5101qfp #TsunamiDay #StopDisastersGame
🎮Your choices could mean education... or destruction.
What choice will you make? 🛡️ Comment! 👇
Play Stop Disasters now 👉 ow.ly/L3sv5101qfp #TsunamiDay #StopDisastersGame
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The benefits of reliable, accurate early warning systems vastly outweigh the implementation costs.
Investing in #EarlyWarningsForAll is essential to build a resilient society, protect development gains, and save lives and valuable assets.
👉 ow.ly/sqBg5101NHH
Investing in #EarlyWarningsForAll is essential to build a resilient society, protect development gains, and save lives and valuable assets.
👉 ow.ly/sqBg5101NHH
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📢 30% of people globally who experienced a disaster received no warning. 77% of those not warned own a mobile phone – early warning systems using mobile phone technologies are essential to achieve #EarlyWarningsForAll.
World Risk Poll ➡️ ow.ly/2erv5101NEM @LR_Foundation
World Risk Poll ➡️ ow.ly/2erv5101NEM @LR_Foundation
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🌊 What would you do with only minutes to reach higher ground?
Ahead of #TsunamiDay on 5 November, nine stories from our archives follow people whose preparedness and quick decisions saved lives when a tsunami hit.
➡️ ow.ly/mM9V5101Ceo #ResilienceStartsWithYou
Ahead of #TsunamiDay on 5 November, nine stories from our archives follow people whose preparedness and quick decisions saved lives when a tsunami hit.
➡️ ow.ly/mM9V5101Ceo #ResilienceStartsWithYou
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📊 What if disaster data could do more than record losses?
From Madagascar to Lebanon, 4 case studies show how loss and damage data is helping drive early action, strengthen resilience and support recovery.
➡️ ow.ly/KQNo5101qpS
From Madagascar to Lebanon, 4 case studies show how loss and damage data is helping drive early action, strengthen resilience and support recovery.
➡️ ow.ly/KQNo5101qpS
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The same El Niño can bring drought to Indonesia and heavy rain to Peru.
🌬️ Trade winds weaken
🌊 Warm water and rainfall shift east
🔥 Indonesia dries, fire risk rises
Reading the Pacific well helps protect people thousands of kilometres away.
➡️ ow.ly/Qnla51013a6
🌬️ Trade winds weaken
🌊 Warm water and rainfall shift east
🔥 Indonesia dries, fire risk rises
Reading the Pacific well helps protect people thousands of kilometres away.
➡️ ow.ly/Qnla51013a6
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🏝️ Nature-based solutions use coastal ecosystems and wetlands to protect us from flooding and coastal hazards like storm surges and tsunamis.
Have you seen any of these nature-based solutions used along your coastlines?
➡️ ow.ly/BKjZ5101qoM
Have you seen any of these nature-based solutions used along your coastlines?
➡️ ow.ly/BKjZ5101qoM
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🌳 Trees can cool cities down: but not all trees, and not everywhere, equally.
A global study across 110 cities shows cooling depends on 🌡️ climate, 🏙️ urban layout & 🌳 species. Some lower temperatures by 12 °C!
👉 ow.ly/cpmC51012F0 #NatureBasedSolutions #BeatTheHeat
A global study across 110 cities shows cooling depends on 🌡️ climate, 🏙️ urban layout & 🌳 species. Some lower temperatures by 12 °C!
👉 ow.ly/cpmC51012F0 #NatureBasedSolutions #BeatTheHeat
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🔥 You don’t have to be near a wildfire to face its smoke.
🌫️ A global study found that nearly 56% of the world’s population experienced increasing exposure to heatwaves and wildfire smoke on the same day over the period 2000–2019.
➡️ ow.ly/y2nj51012h7
🌫️ A global study found that nearly 56% of the world’s population experienced increasing exposure to heatwaves and wildfire smoke on the same day over the period 2000–2019.
➡️ ow.ly/y2nj51012h7
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🏙️ How much is your city sinking? The answer may depend on your neighborhood.
A study of 465 large cities worldwide used satellite data to map land subsidence, revealing how citywide averages can hide local hotspots.
➡️ ow.ly/SgTZ510129F
A study of 465 large cities worldwide used satellite data to map land subsidence, revealing how citywide averages can hide local hotspots.
➡️ ow.ly/SgTZ510129F
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In 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in 🇭🇹 Haiti killed 222,000 people and left millions homeless.
But in 2012 just two people died when a 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit 🇨🇷 Costa Rica.
Why?
🏗️ Strict building codes. Resilient infrastructure saves lives.👇
#BuildingResilience
But in 2012 just two people died when a 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit 🇨🇷 Costa Rica.
Why?
🏗️ Strict building codes. Resilient infrastructure saves lives.👇
#BuildingResilience
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🌊🏝️ Nature-based solutions use coastal ecosystems to protect us from coastal hazards like tsunamis.
🌱 Upper beaches and dunes
🫧 Intertidal wetlands
🪸 Aquatic ecosystems
➡️ ow.ly/Peqa5100AJT #TsunamiDay #ResilienceStartsWithYou
🌱 Upper beaches and dunes
🫧 Intertidal wetlands
🪸 Aquatic ecosystems
➡️ ow.ly/Peqa5100AJT #TsunamiDay #ResilienceStartsWithYou
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Let’s break the chain. Stop saying NATURAL disasters—and others will follow. 💡
There’s no such thing as a natural disaster! ❌ A hurricane, earthquake, or flood is a natural HAZARD – but DISASTERS only happen when people are unprotected, exposed, vulnerable.
#NoNaturalDisasters
There’s no such thing as a natural disaster! ❌ A hurricane, earthquake, or flood is a natural HAZARD – but DISASTERS only happen when people are unprotected, exposed, vulnerable.
#NoNaturalDisasters
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🎴 When drought lowered Panama Canal water levels, shipping disruptions rippled through global supply chains. ⛓️💥
🪄One consequence: delays to the release of new Magic: The Gathering cards.
Climate risks cascade across interconnected systems➡️ ow.ly/CXXM5100zPP
🪄One consequence: delays to the release of new Magic: The Gathering cards.
Climate risks cascade across interconnected systems➡️ ow.ly/CXXM5100zPP
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Climate hazards are disrupting sports events.
🌡️ Extreme heat
🌫️ Wildfire smoke
🌊 Storms and floods
🕐 Schedule disruption
👥 Spectators exposed to risks
The climate crisis is changing the rules of the game. ➡️ ow.ly/9EMV5100B8q
🌡️ Extreme heat
🌫️ Wildfire smoke
🌊 Storms and floods
🕐 Schedule disruption
👥 Spectators exposed to risks
The climate crisis is changing the rules of the game. ➡️ ow.ly/9EMV5100B8q
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🚨After a disaster strikes, early damage assessments can help save lives, deliver aid, and restore systems.
This is how Japan invests in developing cutting-edge technology to assess damage & take action.
➡️ ow.ly/pHZ55100Awq #TsunamiDay #ResilienceStartsWithYou
This is how Japan invests in developing cutting-edge technology to assess damage & take action.
➡️ ow.ly/pHZ55100Awq #TsunamiDay #ResilienceStartsWithYou
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When people see familiar streets submerged in a flood simulation, risk becomes very real – even if it's virtual.
In France, water management authorities are using VR to communicate flood risk, to start dialogue about risk reduction.
#DRRvoices ➡️ ow.ly/I3IX5100AW6
In France, water management authorities are using VR to communicate flood risk, to start dialogue about risk reduction.
#DRRvoices ➡️ ow.ly/I3IX5100AW6
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🚑 Hospitals are often on the front line of disasters. But how prepared are the people who keep them running in an emergency?
🏥Training, accessibility & regular exercises help build a culture of preparedness in healthcare settings.
➡️ow.ly/AuIZ5100A4F #DRRvoices
🏥Training, accessibility & regular exercises help build a culture of preparedness in healthcare settings.
➡️ow.ly/AuIZ5100A4F #DRRvoices
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