Our speakers from the Caribbean Development Bank, Practical Action, Resurgence and UNDRR will draw on their experience to provide an overview of the challenges and some of the solutions their organisations are working on within Disaster Risk Management.
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Natural hazards are increasing at a rapid pace due to climate change – floods, droughts, earthquakes and cyclones – and these hazards result in severe human disasters with detrimental impacts on communities and livelihoods. As the impacts of climate change become more apparent, vulnerable and hazard prone communities face increasingly dangerous and complex challenges.
Disaster Risk Reduction includes a set of approaches to analyse and understand why these disasters happen and to assert what types of preventative actions can be taken.
To reduce the impacts of natural disasters, the main opportunity to address these risks is through reducing vulnerability and exposure, and through capacity building. Reducing these components of risk requires identifying and reducing the drivers of these risks, which tend to be related to poor urban development, degradation of the environment, inequality, all of which are compounded by climate change. In addressing these risks, it is possible to lessen the impacts of the climate crisis, reduce the adverse risks posed by disasters and protect communities who are susceptible to these shocks.
The increasing exposure of communities and economic assets to these types of risks is impeding the financial – as well as physical – resilience of these communities and their ability to develop. The World Bank recently identified financial, physical and social resilience as the three integral elements to creating disaster resilience, as also alluded to in the Sendai Framework and the SDGs in part.
In order to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Disaster Risk Reduction must be integrated into climate policy and programmes globally, in order to protect states who are disproportionately impacted.
Our speakers, from the Caribbean Development Bank, Practical Action, Resurgence and UNDRR will draw on their experience to provide an overview of the challenges and some of the solutions their organisations are working on within this space.
