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Mami Mizutori, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), said, “human decisions are the largest contributors to disaster risk, and we have the power to stop disasters from devastating.” UNIFEED

Climate change and increasingly extreme weather events have caused a surge in natural disasters over the past 50 years disproportionately impacting poorer countries, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) said on Wednesday. UNTV CH

Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic, the UN’s top official for disaster reduction said on Thursday, in a call for concerted action and new transboundary alliances to tackle the growing global threat. UNTV CH

In comments to mark 10 years since the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami on 11 March 2011, which left 18,400 people dead or missing, the head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Mami Mizutori told journalists in Geneva that the event had taught harsh lessons about how to manage disaster risk. UNTV CH

Renewed warnings of deadly destruction in the Bahamas caused by hurricane Dorian have been issued by UN agencies and partners, who said on Tuesday that they’re worried “for every single” person on two of the worst-hit islands. UNTV CH

Natural disasters affected more than 60 million people around the world in 2018 and claimed over 10,300 lives, despite the absence of a cataclysmic event, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), said on Thursday. UNTV CH