UNDRR
@UNDRR

#UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, dedicated to building disaster #resilience and tackling #climatechange through implementation of the Sendai Framework

 Geneva
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Joined August 2009
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In Cuba, community leaders help early warnings reach the last mile. 📡 Meteorology issues forecasts 🛡️ Civil Defence issues warnings 🏘️ Leaders mobilize neighbours Preparedness turns every warning into protective action. #EarlyWarningsForAll
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📚 Curious about disaster risk reduction? Join our live PreventionWeb Information Session to discover DRR research, news, training and resources for your studies or career. 🌍 Register now ➡️ ow.ly/Nv3E50ZRn1Q
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🚒 Wildfire strategy often favours one approach. But the greatest gains come where all three connect: 🔥 Rapid fire suppression limits losses 🌲 Fuel reduction lowers fire intensity 🌄 Living with fire renews landscapes Each strengthens the others. ➡️ ow.ly/85Ra50ZQwsO
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🌍 The Sendai Framework sets 7 global targets to reduce disaster risk. Progress is clear: 📉 Disaster mortality is falling 🎯 More countries have DRR strategies 📡 Early warning coverage is expanding But major gaps remain. See where we stand ➡️ ow.ly/qYw150ZR4lf
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🔎 Looking beyond the headlines? Dive into this week’s 🗞️ disaster risk reduction stories, 🔬 research and 💡 insights, curated by the #PreventionWeb editors. 📖 ow.ly/e2RT50ZR3Aa 👣 Follow 👍 Like 🔔 Subscribe 🗨️ Comment
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🔴 90% of climate-related deaths occur in poorer countries. Disasters deepen vulnerability, locking people into poverty. We can #BreakTheCycle of poverty and disasters by investing in reducing risk and building resilience.
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Extreme heat travels through systems — through food supply, labour markets, power grids, classrooms. The Extreme Heat Portal brings together data, evidence, & practical tools to support an understanding of extreme heat as a systemic risk ➡️ ow.ly/CM6250YW4jy #BeatTheHeat
Infographic showing systemic impacts of extreme heat including 2.4 billion workers at risk and 171 million students affected by school closures in 2024.

ALT Infographic showing systemic impacts of extreme heat including 2.4 billion workers at risk and 171 million students affected by school closures in 2024.

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🌊 Floods cause many of the most frequent, destructive disasters, fuelled by: 🌧️ More intense rainfall, a result of climate change 🏙️ Urbanisation & land-use change But solutions exist: The 2025 World Risk Report shows how flood risk can be reduced ➡️ ow.ly/Kyz550X2fL6
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🌍 The @UN is working to get ahead of disasters. ⏱️ $51M released through 9 frameworks helped 2.5M+ people before disasters hit. 🛡️ 90+ countries received support to reduce risk. ➡️ ow.ly/JgVr50ZQEKI
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Anticipatory action is a smarter way to deliver humanitarian support. It works best when governments take the lead. 🌐 These six countries are showing how that shift happens — from pilot to lasting impact. Learn more, from @UNOCHA ➡️ ow.ly/Z23p50YKrKV #AnticipatoryAction
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Earthquakes can trigger cascading hazards — tsunamis, landslides, toxic spills, infrastructure collapse. Understanding risk is the foundation of resilience. ➡️ ow.ly/gha250ZQCL7 #BuildingResilience
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🇸🇪🎮 New language unlocked: Swedish! Think you can stop disasters? 🏘️ Build safer communities 🌊 Prepare for hazards 🧠 Make tough choices 💥 Test your strategy! Play for free ➡️ ow.ly/LmAv50ZQeXr With thanks to @KAU for translation help! #StopDisastersGame
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Vital. Humanitarian action saves lives; it depends on the funding and protection to continue. Across the world's crises, the @UN reached 98 million people with aid & protection, mobilising $16bn of the $45bn required. Read more➡️ ow.ly/cccy50ZQzUh
Group of African women and children wearing colorful headscarves under a clear blue sky, with the word 'Vital' and United Nations logo.

ALT Group of African women and children wearing colorful headscarves under a clear blue sky, with the word 'Vital' and United Nations logo.
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🐮 Meet the goat-cow! In Galicia, Spain, Cachena cattle graze scrub that can fuel wildfires. 🌿🔥 💚 A community-led approach combining traditional grazing with nature-based wildfire risk reduction. ➡️ ow.ly/jG5U50ZQe4y
Close-up of a cow with a bell, symbolizing a Spanish community's unique method to combat wildfires.

ALT Close-up of a cow with a bell, symbolizing a Spanish community's unique method to combat wildfires.
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Disaster risk can be sudden or everyday. ⚡ Intensive risk: High-impact, lower-frequency events cause sudden, catastrophic losses. 🌧️ Extensive risk: Frequent, lower-impact (eg. floods, storms, droughts) – impacts accumulate. Both must be reduced➡️ ow.ly/77lF50Y5jPC
Chart illustrating intensive risk with low frequency and high impact events like severe cyclones, earthquakes, and tsunamis, and extensive risk with high frequency, low impact events such as persistent droughts or floods.

ALT Chart illustrating intensive risk with low frequency and high impact events like severe cyclones, earthquakes, and tsunamis, and extensive risk with high frequency, low impact events such as persistent droughts or floods.

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The highest #tsunami wave ever recorded could have easily crashed over the Eiffel Tower. 🌊🌊🌊 Luckily, it broke in a largely inhabited part of Alaska, so not many people were impacted.
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🍽️ By 2050, the lowest-income households in parts of Southern Africa could spend 50% of their income on food. In parts of the Middle East, 19% could go to energy. ⚠️ Future food, water and energy pressures could deepen existing inequalities. ➡️ ow.ly/H8T350ZPK2T
Southern Africa's poorest households may spend up to 50% of their income on food by 2050, highlighting growing economic challenges.

ALT Southern Africa's poorest households may spend up to 50% of their income on food by 2050, highlighting growing economic challenges.
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⏱️ What can six months of drought warning make possible? In Mozambique, @WFP uses forecasts and real-time monitoring to support anticipatory action before impacts escalate. 🎥 See early action in practice ➡️ ow.ly/XH3P50ZPGZ2
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A 1-in-100 year flood does not mean once a century. 🌊 It means a flood with a 1% chance of being exceeded in any given year. ⏳Understanding return periods helps shift thinking away from surprise and towards preparedness. ➡️ ow.ly/296J50Y3CmW
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🌳 Urban trees cool cities – but not all trees, and not in the same way everywhere. 👉 ow.ly/lHbL50XLylN #NatureBasedSolutions #BeatTheHeat #DRRretrospective
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