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IPCC Special Report 'Managing the risks of extreme events and disasters': Nominate an author until 27 Jul 2009

G8 Summit ‘promises much’ on Disaster Risk Reduction

BBC World Debate ‘Prevent or React’

Chair’s Summary of the Second Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction

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.

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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.

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Global Platform: Special events to highlight projects and achievements

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.

Video : 2009 Global assesment report (GAR)

UNFCCC summary of disaster risk workshop now available