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IPCC Special Report 'Managing the risks of extreme events and disasters': Nominate an author until 27 Jul 2009	15 Jul 2009	News briefs
G8 Summit ‘promises much’ on Disaster Risk Reduction Leaders of the world’s eight main industrialized countries gathering for a G8 Summit meeting later this week are being urged to apply their ‘considerable influence, resources and political will’ to advance five major action points on disaster risk reduction (DRR).	7 Jul 2009	Press release
BBC World Debate ‘Prevent or React’	1 Jul 2009	News briefs
Chair’s Summary of the Second Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction	25 Jun 2009	News briefs
Risk reduction conference ends with call to halve disaster related deaths by 2015 The Global Platform ended today with participants from more than 300 regional/national organizations and governments urging political leaders to implement measures to halve the number of deaths from natural hazards by 2015. > View full story	19 Jun 2009	News briefs
The Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction goes carbon neutral	17 Jun 2009	News briefs
Governments ‘must invest today for safer tomorrow' – the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction opens in Geneva The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction opens in Geneva Leaders and representatives from some 165 Governments gathering here today for the 2009 Global Platform on Disaster Reduction will be urged to ‘invest today for a safer tomorrow’ – or face much harder decisions in the years to come.	16 Jun 2009	News briefs
Indonesian scientist Eko Teguh Paripurno wins 2009 UN Sasakawa Award The 2009 laureate for the Sasakawa Award for Disaster Reduction is geologist Dr Eko Teguh Paripurno. He receives the award - valued at US$ 50,000 - for his lifetime contribution and his outstanding commitment to reduce disaster risk and building capacity at the community level in Indonesia, one of the countries most vulnerable to multiple hazards.	16 Jun 2009	Press release
Global Platform for Disaster Reduction	16 Jun 2009	News briefs
Event : 2009 Global assesment report on disaster risk reduction launch : Bangkok, Thailand : 25th May The Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction launched for the first time internationally in Bahrain on 17-18 May by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki -moon will be launched regionally in Bangkok on 25 May 2009, at the United Nations Conference Centre, in presence of senior officials from the Regional Organisations, Government of Thailand, senior representatives from the UN Agencies, International Financial Institutions, and the Civil Society, followed by a discussion on the implications of the Reports? findings for the Asia and the Pacific. > View full story	25 May 2009	News briefs
Video : 2009 Global assesment report (GAR) Video : 2009 Global assesment report (GAR) > View full story	1 May 2009	News briefs
Why do people die in earthquakes? Buildings are the main killers The 6.3-magnitude quake that struck Italy early this morning is confirmation, once again that Europe is not immune from powerful earthquakes. The intensity of the Italian earthquake was 6.3 on the Richter scale comparable to the May 2006 earthquake in Indonesia island of Java, which killed more than 5000 people in the city of Yogyakarta.	6 Apr 2009	Press release
Disaster statistics in Europe: Floods, droughts and storms are a major threat "Europe suffers significantly from disasters in both human and economic terms. Among them, European Union countries have chalked up major losses due to climate related disasters in the last decades and have already faced major storms and severe winter conditions since January this year" said today the Belgian WHO collaborating Center for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) in a joint press conference with the Secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR).	9 Mar 2009	Press release
Disaster deaths and economic losses jump in 2008 2008 saw a marked increase in the number of deaths and economic losses compared to the 2000-2007 yearly average, according to the Center for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) which released the new figures today in Geneva at a joint press conference with UNISDR.	22 Jan 2009	Press release
ISDR Highlights December 08 Highlights this month include the results of the Poznań Climate Change talks, the appointment of a new Asia Pacific regional Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction, and a call by Asian Ministers for 10% of humanitarian funding to go to disaster risk reduction.	18 Dec 2008	Newsletter
International Day for Disaster Reduction: UN rings the alarm on health cost of disasters	8 Oct 2008	Press release
Adapt now to rising floodwaters says UN disaster prevention body	26 Sep 2008	Press release
Traditional knowledge can save lives when disaster strikes	19 Sep 2008	Press release
Disasters trap the poor in a vicous circle of poverty	16 Sep 2008	Press release
Poorly constructed buildings kill people during earthquakes	16 May 2008	Press release
Early warning systems can save lives when cyclones strike	6 May 2008	Press release
Tackling drought essential for food crisis solution	25 Apr 2008	Press release
Message on the occasion of International Women’s Day The crucial role of women in development has long been very clear to the ISDR secretariat, and it is my pleasure on this day to reaffirm the secretariat’s commitment to achieving gender equality in disaster risk reduction.	8 Mar 2008	Statements & speeches
Central Asia threatened by floods after severe cold weather	28 Feb 2008	Press release
China's freak snowstorms: the new normal?	6 Feb 2008	Press release
Campaign launched on Hospitals Safe from Disasters: "The most expensive hospital is the one that fails"	24 Jan 2008	Press release
Asia continues to be hit hardest by disasters	18 Jan 2008	Press release
UNISDR urges governments at Bali climate change conference to promote adaptation and disaster risk reduction	23 Nov 2007	Press release
Prevention Web: a new tool to increase knowledge on disaster risk reduction	13 Nov 2007	Press release
We need to do better to protect vulnerable people against "predictable" disasters	2 Nov 2007	Press release