#UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, dedicated to building disaster #resilience and tackling #climatechange through implementation of the Sendai Framework
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🤔 If you couldn’t get home during an emergency, would your household know what to do?
👉 Find your next action with the @UNDRR–@ifrc preparedness guide: ow.ly/uOfa51029Im
#ResilienceStartsAtHome #DRRDay
ALT Three people inside a room studying a map with location markers, emphasizing coordinated disaster risk reduction support among neighbors and households.
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Pleased to host UNDRR donor meeting w @HeadUNDRR Kishore, an opportunity to discuss how to sustain prevention amid growing risks and pressure on resources. Our message: Disasters can reverse development gains in hours - prevention must remain a priority for the intl community.
The latest disaster risk reduction 🗞 news and 🔬 trusted research – with a special focus on how tsunami resilience starts with you!
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ALT this week in tsunami risk reduction
🫵 Every business can help its community recover faster.
In Sendai, Japan, SMEs rebuilt after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami and now anchor local preparedness. 🤝
This #TsunamiDay, 5 November: resilience starts with you.
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Cities create their own heat. 🌆🌡️
Built surfaces such as asphalt and concrete absorb and store heat during the day, then release it slowly after sunset.
Designing cooler, greener, more inclusive cities is now a public health priority.🏙️
➡️ ow.ly/QxxM5102bwC #BeatTheHeat
ALT Diagram illustrating urban heat island effect with limited vegetation, restricted airflow, trapped heat in buildings, heat-absorbing surfaces, and waste heat from human activities in a cityscape.
Today SRSG Kamal Kishore met Ambassador Luigi Maria Vignali @ItalyUN_Geneva
🇮🇹 UNDRR is grateful for Italy’s partnership and steady leadership on #DRR, including support for:
📡 Early warning systems in Africa
🏔️ Resilience in the Western Balkans
⚖️ DRR and human rights
🌊A tsunami is on its way – you have to choose how to keep schools safe!🏘️
🎮Your choices could mean education... or destruction.
What choice will you make? 🛡️ Comment! 👇
Play Stop Disasters now 👉 ow.ly/L3sv5101qfp #TsunamiDay #StopDisastersGame
ALT What would you do to protect people's houses and Stop Disasters?
The benefits of reliable, accurate early warning systems vastly outweigh the implementation costs.
Investing in #EarlyWarningsForAll is essential to build a resilient society, protect development gains, and save lives and valuable assets.
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📢 30% of people globally who experienced a disaster received no warning. 77% of those not warned own a mobile phone – early warning systems using mobile phone technologies are essential to achieve #EarlyWarningsForAll.
World Risk Poll ➡️ ow.ly/2erv5101NEM @LR_Foundation
🌊 What would you do with only minutes to reach higher ground?
Ahead of #TsunamiDay on 5 November, nine stories from our archives follow people whose preparedness and quick decisions saved lives when a tsunami hit.
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ALT Illustration of a person running from large tsunami waves - 9 examples of tsunami readiness for World Tsunami Awareness Day.
📊 What if disaster data could do more than record losses?
From Madagascar to Lebanon, 4 case studies show how loss and damage data is helping drive early action, strengthen resilience and support recovery.
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The same El Niño can bring drought to Indonesia and heavy rain to Peru.
🌬️ Trade winds weaken
🌊 Warm water and rainfall shift east
🔥 Indonesia dries, fire risk rises
Reading the Pacific well helps protect people thousands of kilometres away.
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🏝️ Nature-based solutions use coastal ecosystems and wetlands to protect us from flooding and coastal hazards like storm surges and tsunamis.
Have you seen any of these nature-based solutions used along your coastlines?
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ALT Nature-based solutions can help protect and restore coastal ecosystems, reducing coastal risk.
🌳 Trees can cool cities down: but not all trees, and not everywhere, equally.
A global study across 110 cities shows cooling depends on 🌡️ climate, 🏙️ urban layout & 🌳 species. Some lower temperatures by 12 °C!
👉 ow.ly/cpmC51012F0 #NatureBasedSolutions #BeatTheHeat
🔥 You don’t have to be near a wildfire to face its smoke.
🌫️ A global study found that nearly 56% of the world’s population experienced increasing exposure to heatwaves and wildfire smoke on the same day over the period 2000–2019.
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ALT 56% of the global population faced both heatwaves and wildfire smoke at the same time from 2000 to 2019, per UNDRR.
🏙️ How much is your city sinking? The answer may depend on your neighborhood.
A study of 465 large cities worldwide used satellite data to map land subsidence, revealing how citywide averages can hide local hotspots.
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ALT Binoculars above a city skyline with text warning that some neighborhoods are sinking faster than others, highlighting urban sinking risks.
In 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in 🇭🇹 Haiti killed 222,000 people and left millions homeless.
But in 2012 just two people died when a 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit 🇨🇷 Costa Rica.
Why?
🏗️ Strict building codes. Resilient infrastructure saves lives.👇
#BuildingResilience
🌊🏝️ Nature-based solutions use coastal ecosystems to protect us from coastal hazards like tsunamis.
🌱 Upper beaches and dunes
🫧 Intertidal wetlands
🪸 Aquatic ecosystems
➡️ ow.ly/Peqa5100AJT #TsunamiDay #ResilienceStartsWithYou
ALT Nature-based solutions can help protect and restore coastal ecosystems, reducing coastal risk.
Let’s break the chain. Stop saying NATURAL disasters—and others will follow. 💡
There’s no such thing as a natural disaster! ❌ A hurricane, earthquake, or flood is a natural HAZARD – but DISASTERS only happen when people are unprotected, exposed, vulnerable.
#NoNaturalDisasters
