Here are 3️⃣ ways working with nature in 🇺🇬 Uganda helps improve resilience against water-related hazards 👇
🎍Bamboo walls to hold back swollen rivers
🛡️Protecting wetlands to keep people safe
🌳Growing trees to stabilise hillsides and rejuvenate land
#LDC5 #NatureBasedSolutions
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#UN Office for #Disaster #Risk Reduction, dedicated to building disaster #resilience and tackling #climatechange through implementation of the Sendai Framework
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#Tsunami Fact🌊:
When a great #Earthquake occurs too far away to feel, we depend on tsunami warning centres of the Tsunami #EarlyWarning Systems to give timely warnings⚠️.
Early Warning saves lives!
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The #Caribbean was the first region to launch the #EarlyWarningsForAll initiative, leading the 🌎 on ' call to ensure that an #EarlyWarning covers every person on Earth by 2027. 🔗 bit.ly/3wCtQAm
Elizabeth Riley is the Executive Director of .
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As we approach the mid-term review of the #SendaiFramework, the #RP23 is an opportunity to reflect on the Regional Action Plan for the Americas & the Caribbean.
Thanks to our colleagues for sharing key findings from: 🇦🇷🇨🇦🇨🇷🇨🇺🇪🇨🇬🇹🇲🇽🇹🇹🇺🇸
Watch it again! 📺 bit.ly/41Er9MQ
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Understanding the full spectrum of hazards that lie within our societies is the first step in effectively reducing disaster risk.
This report classifies over 300 hazards & contains recommendations to take work forward. bit.ly/30hzjNT
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What a productive first day of #RP23 discussing science & technology for disaster risk management, gender, innovative financing, and more!
We welcome over 800 attendees from 
31 national delegations & 
26 observing countries. 
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31 national delegations & 26 observing countries. bit.ly/3EMcHbS
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📻Europe must ensure effective risk communication is part of disaster risk reduction plans.
💡Science-based information must be trusted, relevant, timely, accurate, and easy to understand to elicit actions that can reduce risks. 👇
undrr.org/quick/76701 #EFDRR
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Sustainable development needs to be risk-informed!
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How can we use foresight to ensure that the risks we face in the future are at the 
of development planning?
Our new Development Futures Series brief identifies 3 key aspects needed to meaningfully apply foresight tools for risk-informed development 
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of development planning?
Our new Development Futures Series brief identifies 3 key aspects needed to meaningfully apply foresight tools for risk-informed development
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"We need to reinforce our infrastructure, communities & ecosystems now, rather than rebuild them in the aftermath."
underlines the need to prevent disasters before they happen ⚠ #DRR #RP23 #SendaiFramework
Learn more in our latest report: council.science/current/press/
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This grassroots movement started 30 years ago when 4 strangers met to talk about flooding. Little did they know they were the start of a powerful community network. The Gran Chaco communities have inspired others to get involved in regional planning 🌎
#EarlyWarningsForAll
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The world is set to miss targets for preventing disasters by 2030 ⚠
But science-based solutions can help get us back on track!
Check out the 's latest report, evaluating progress towards the #SendaiFramework 👇👇 #RP23 #DRR
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Medellín goes green 🌱 and keeps cool 🌤️
Passive #technology and business model innovations are creating a healthier and more productive city in #Colombia. The city and its businesses are turning to new sustainable cooling solutions to protect their citizens and workers. 👇
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If we want to achieve #GlobalGoals by 2030, we cannot afford to leave the Least Developed Countries behind!🌎🌍🌏
Join the conversation at SDG Media Zone at #LDC5 on accelerating #GlobalGoals in the places where international assistance is needed the most bit.ly/SDGzone
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The world is set to miss UN targets for preventing deadly and costly disasters by 2030, finds #SendaiFramework midterm review.
But science-based solutions could get us back on track.
ow.ly/efqR50N6e2j #DRRInReview
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#COVID19, climate change & conflict are undermining efforts to reach the #GlobalGoals, but solidarity, leadership & commitment can help achieve the world’s development agenda.
– at African Regional Forum for Sustainable Development.
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Disasters do discriminate.
The #LGBTQIA+ community is often disproportionally affected by disasters and has different and uneven levels of resilience and capacity to recover.
#ZeroDiscimination Day is here to remind us that disasters should not discriminate.
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Disasters discriminate, often reinforcing inequalities. Researchers at found that post-Hurricane Michael trauma – and psychosocial and physical challenges – disproportionately affect Black communities.
ow.ly/sGa050N5N9a #ZeroDiscrimination
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🗨️ "With #ClimateData more available than ever before, we have a responsibility as humanitarians. We need to make climate information accessible to all," said during the High-Level Session 2⃣ of the #RP23.
🔴 Tune in now: bit.ly/41BFt9a
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'Mid-term Review of implementation of the Sendai Framework and progress on the implementation of the RAP' special session was a dialogue on key findings, challenges and recommendations from the MTR SF process in the region to consolidate key issues for high level consideration.
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WMO SG Taalas met with
#EarlyWarningsforAll are vital to save lives from increasing water-related disasters
We need better water monitoring and data exchange in face of growing water scarcity because you can not manage what you don't measure
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Population growth & rapid urbanization have led to losses in agricultural land in Senegal, causing food shortages, higher prices & greater food insecurity.
🎧 Listen to ’s podcast to learn how micro-gardening is increasing #FoodSecurity in Dakar 👉 bit.ly/3kAOtdR
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"Science & technology are critical to informing decision-making and scaling up solutions for all aspects of risk reduction, including the expansion of early warning systems,” said at the Opening Ceremony of the #RP23. 📰 bit.ly/3KLuEeG #TechnologyOnOurSide
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These home seismometers are helping communities in #Haiti understand #earthquake risk. The devices feed scientists information on aftershocks and provide vital data where information gathering is complex.
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Mangroves can protect coastal communities from storms, flooding and other hazards.
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Mangroves are key to the wellbeing, food security & protection of coastal communities worldwide.
Yet they are disappearing 3-5 times faster than global forest losses.
@UNESCO's #BiosphereReserves offer a blueprint for protecting these unique ecosystems: on.unesco.org/3FbJus5
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To ensure a safe & prosperous world, it is critical that we achieve the #SDGs. Sustainable development policies must therefore fully integrate disaster risk management.
Check out 5⃣ Facts on disaster risk and the SDGs: ehs.unu.edu/news/news/5-fa
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Women and girls are affected differently by #disasters than men and boys.👩👧
LAC Women's DRR Network is created by and for #women of Latin America and the Caribbean involved in #DRR. The official launch was organized by , ONU Mujeres and UNDRR.
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Water scarcity causes a ripple effect across societies:
🧳Displacement
🍞Food scarcity
🪫Energy shortages
🏫Missed school days
🕊️Conflict
We need 💡 innovative solutions to keep water flowing 💧
bit.ly/Water2023 #WaterAction
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The has identified5️⃣Disaster Resilience Goals for the EU:
💡Anticipate
🎓Prepare
📢Alert
🚨Respond
🛡️Secure
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📢 Follow the Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas and the Caribbean - #RP23 - starting today, 28 February.
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The format is hybrid
60 minutes
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parallel sessions of the #RP23! All eight sessions focus on key themes defined by the Advisory Board for the Regional Platform.
The format is hybrid
60 minutes
Info & Registration rp-americas.undrr.org
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📢 The VIII Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas and the Caribbean #RP23 Official Opening Ceremony will start at 9:00 am (🇺🇾 Uruguay Time).
Join in! 🔗 rp-americas.undrr.org
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Trees in urban areas can also act as #NatureBasedSolutions to hazards like heatwaves - offering some protection against the heat island effect in cities.
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More than 50% of the 
's population lives in urban areas.
Trees and urban forests can make our cities cooler, greener, healthier and happier places to live.
#GreenCities
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Important voice from the #Pacific! #Kiribati Govt & taking stock of the #SendaiFramework for #DRR implementation for the Midterm Review. What does it take to accelerate DRR & build resilience in one of the countries most affected by #ClimateChange in the 🌏?
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Enrol yourself for a career in resilience!
PreventionWeb has listings of Master's degrees with a #DRR focus from all over the world – 
now updated!
Why not take a look? 
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Climate change will displace 200m + people by 2048 🏃🏿🏃🏽♀️
In 🇧🇩 Bangladesh, this /BRAC programme is scaling up creation of climate-resilient, migrant-friendly towns by providing more jobs and public services for new arrivals. 👇
context.news/climate-risks/
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