#UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, dedicated to building disaster #resilience and tackling #climatechange through implementation of the Sendai Framework
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Disaster losses run at $202bn/year officially. The true cost – once ecosystem damage is counted – tops $2.3 trillion.
FRAME-ECO now provides a methodology to close that gap, linking to DELTA Resilience for implementation. 🌿
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ALT Iceberg graphic illustrating $202 billion as the visible cost of disasters, with $2.3 trillion representing the hidden, indirect impacts below the surface.
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Disaster risk exists as a spectrum.
🎯 Deterministic assessment: one defined scenario
🔭 Probabilistic assessment: likelihood across thousands of events
Together, they provide a better foundation for preparedness.
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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.
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🔥 Wildfire risk has intensified, but as we develop new solutions we need to ensure that these build on the ten fundamental principles outlined here.
Explore further ➡️ ow.ly/Js3I50YcFf2
ALT Circular infographic showing ten principles for reducing wildfire risk.
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💸 When funding is released early, the impacts multiply.
As El Niño brought drought in 2023–2024, #AnticipatoryAction helped 1.6m people to protect crops, assets, food security. 🌾
The systems exist. The evidence is growing. Now it’s about scale.
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How do you warn about invisible risks? 🧪
📖 A study in Japan found students who read manga-based disaster comms were more likely to notice hidden hazards after a quake than those who read plain text.
💥 Risk comms need to grab attention to inform!
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🌳 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!
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☔ More rain is falling across the United States; at the same time, droughts are getting worse.🏜️
Why? Rising temperatures are pushing the water cycle out of sync.
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ALT Diagram showing how increased precipitation and evapotranspiration affect soil moisture, groundwater flow, and runoff in the terrestrial water cycle.
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What works in disaster risk reduction – and why – is rarely found in policy frameworks alone.📋
✅Real decisions. Real constraints. Real outcomes.
PreventionWeb case studies: lessons in resilience from practical experience in real-world contexts. ➡️ ow.ly/bYCA50Zb73e
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⚽14 of 16 2026 World Cup stadiums now see more extremely hot days in June–July than in 1970.
In repeat host cities, extremely hot days have tripled. Nearly half caused by climate change, @climatecentral research shows. 🌡️
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A locust swarm of 80 million insects can consume as much food in a day as 35,000 people. 🌾
🦗In this #DRRvoices interview, Ali Babalifashki of Iran's Plant Protection Organization shares what locust risk management looks like on the ground.
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During the last three years the world has been shaken by several major earthquakes.
👇 Here are 5️⃣ lessons they have taught us, from @TheWorldBank Blog and @miyamotointl ow.ly/EMoU50Tz2e8
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A selection of the week's disaster risk reduction 🗞 news and 🔬 trusted research, brought to you by the #PreventionWeb editors.
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Disasters don’t just happen — they’re shaped by the systems around us. Risks grow when environmental, social, and governance factors are ignored.
💡 Tackling these drivers means tackling risk itself — building resilience that lasts.
Learn more ➡️ ow.ly/ee0i50Xe2hC
ALT Disasters don't just happen. Risks are shaped by drivers in our environment, societies, and governance.
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Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are home to just 65 million people, yet they face some of the highest levels of climate and disaster risk.
Disaster risk reduction & #EarlyWarningsForAll are vital for SIDS' economic progress & development ➡️ ow.ly/cFzM50ZaAs6 #CREWS
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Free, flexible, online training.
The @UNDRR x @UNSSC course on synergizing DRR and climate action has been updated and expanded — with deeper CRM content, new case studies, and practical cross-sector guidance.
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ALT Promotional graphic for a free learning path on climate resilience by UNDRR, highlighting actionable strategies and global lessons.
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Disaster risks are not simple. Impacts often cascade across systems, creating new risks.
Addressing systemic risks requires a new approach, working across silos, accepting a greater degree of uncertainty.
Learn more about systemic risks ➡️ ow.ly/FkmA50TvUzx
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🚰 💦 Water is at the heart of many disasters, but water can also guide us through crises.
Cooperation on water paves the way for cooperation on all shared challenges – including reducing disaster risk ➡️ ow.ly/MPSp50WCUY2 #WordsIntoAction
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📉 Disaster losses are spiralling out of control.
#GAR2025 reveals 3 downward spirals turning shocks into systemic crises — and how smart investments can break the cycle of disasters, debt & un-insurability.
🆕 Explore the UN flagship DRR report ➡️ ow.ly/JGno50VYQvo
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