UNISDR UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction [to 10 October 2015]
http://www.unisdr.org/archive
Selected Press Releases

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Europe adopts Sendai roadmap
9 Oct 2015
European countries on Friday issued a broad-ranging plan to energize their implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, an international agreement that aims by 2030 to reduce substantially the number of deaths and economic damage caused by natural and man-made hazards.

Flash floods are a major global threat says UN
9 Oct 2015
The head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), Margareta Wahlström, today said that urban areas must invest more in reducing the risk from flash floods such as those which have claimed hundreds of lives in Guatemala, South Carolina in the US and the south of France in recent days.