HIWeather International Coordination Office visited IRDR International Programme Office on 4 November 2019 for further collaboration. The High Impact Weather project (HIWeather) is a ten year activity within the World Weather Research Programm. The Executive Director of IRDR Prof. Qunli Han updated IRDR recent activities especially on the Science and Policy Forum in 2019 Global …

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IRDR together with APSTAAG are conducting a survey to track the progress of the Asia and Pacific regional implementation of the Sendai Framework Science Technology Roadmap from a wide range of stakeholders. The analyses of the survey will be presented at the 2020 Asia Pacific Science and Technology Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction (ASTCDRR) on …

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UN High Commissioner for Refugees: Climate Change and Displacement Climate change and natural disasters can add to and worsen the threats that force people to flee across international borders. The interplay between climate, conflict, poverty and persecution greatly increases the complexity of refugee emergencies. Victoria, Australia – National Climate Change and Agriculture Plan Agreed Australian …

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IRDR young scientists Dr. Johnrev Guilaran published a paper with colleagues on the Disasters.   This scoping review provides a summary of research findings on social support dynamics in the aftermath of disasters that occurred on the continent of Australia and Oceania between 1983 and 2013. Forty‐one studies, both quantitative and qualitative, that investigated different …

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“If you ask us for ideas, act on them” – Youth call out UN, world leaders on climate action The Youth Climate Action Summit brought youth climate champions together from more than 140 countries and territories to a platform to share their solutions on the global stage, and deliver a clear message to world leaders: …

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Next Generation Disaster Data Infrastructure is a study report of IRDR Working Group on DATA and the CODATA Task Group on Linked Open Data for Global Disaster Risk Research. The research was supported by Chinese Academy of Science and Tonkin+Taylor. This white paper proposes the next generation of disaster data infrastructure, which includes both novel …

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