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Infographic highlighting disaster risks for older adults, showing 56% elderly deaths in the 2011 Japan tsunami and 75% in Hurricane Katrina 2005, urging better crisis protection.

Ageing and risk – how to get it right

WMO: Weather reports from the future

Judges announce Sasakawa Award short-list

People, including children, are walking, playing, and sitting in a green park with trees, pathways, and scattered sunlight.

UN recognizes Hoboken as a role model city

Cover of the 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction, featuring a large red "GAR" acronym and title text.

23 February 2015

GAR15 to seek fresh start

A large group of people wade through muddy floodwaters, carrying belongings on their heads and in their hands, surrounded by dense vegetation.

04 February 2015

Key role for health in new HFA

02 February 2015

Warming trend continues in 2014

A large group of people poses on stage holding certificates in front of a screen displaying "Provincia di Potenza Network Comuni Resilienti.

26 January 2015

Potenza becomes role model for resilience

A world map displays clusters of colored dots marking earthquake locations and seismic activity zones across continents and oceans.

21 January 2015

GEM’S OpenQuake platform launched

An excavator works on leveling or moving soil near a body of water, with a dirt embankment in the foreground and greenery in the background.

13 January 2015

Flood crises fuel strategic rethink in Europe

A street with multiple fallen utility poles leaning across the road; a person walks along the sidewalk beside the damage.

13 January 2015

20 years after Kobe quake, world rethinks disaster risk

09 January 2015

DRR negotiations resume next week

Meetings

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