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IRDR Publications and Activities for GP2025
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27 May 2025
Professor Saini Yang Appointed as the New Executive Director of IRDR
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08 July 2024
IRDR Introduction Video
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23 May 2023
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UNDRR Initial COVID-19 Engagement Strategy and Communication Campaign
10 April 2020
The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak is an unprecedented event in modern human history, requiring the United Nations system to work as One UN to support countries.The UN Secretary-General has asked the international community to focus on three critical areas of
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IRDR Scientists's Viewpoint towards COVID-19
31 March 2020
2020 has become the year of coping with COVID-19.The WHO declared this as Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on 31th of January 2020, and finally a pandemic on 11th March 2020.IRDR Scientific Committee members contribute to the analy
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Call for participation: Global Congress on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction
02 March 2020
Global Congress on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction will be organized in Bhubaneswar on 9-10th Oct 2020. The congress aims to gather more than 500 DRR and Climate Change Professors, Researchers, Students, and Practitioner from United Nations, I
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HIWeather ICO visited IRDR IPO for further cooperation
14 November 2019
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 Executi
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Survey on regional implementation of S&T Roadmap
14 November 2019
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
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Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter | November 2019 Edition
06 November 2019
UN High Commissioner for Refugees: Climate Change and DisplacementClimate 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 persecuti
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Dr Bapon Fakhruddin：Early warning system could reduce cyclone losses by 80 percent
16 August 2019
A new national early warning system for cyclones would reduce the losses they cause to Samoa by as much as 80 per cent and pay for itself more than six times over, a new report has found.The authors, Dr. Fakhruddin and Schick are from Tonkin + Taylor Inte
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China GEO/LODGD supports New Year Flood Impact in Honiara
17 June 2019
From the 27th December 2018 the Solomon Islands experienced two weeks of intense rainfall due to the rapid succession of three tropical storms. Firstly, a tropical depression that later turned into Cyclone Mona crossed the country bringing heavy downpour
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Celebrating Disaster ‘Non-Events’: a Call for Research Papers and Case Studies
11 June 2019
For more details and submission, please refer to the original link.
The top two papers will be announced at the 2020 Asia Pacific Science and Technology Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction in Kuala Lumpur on March 16-17, 2020.
