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German Committee for Disaster Reduction e.V. (ger.: Deutsches Komitee Katastrophenvorsorge e.V.)
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PLANAT Future Forum 2025
The National Platform for Natural Hazards (PLANAT) invites you to the PLANAT Future Forum to develop solutions for the increasing risks and damage caused by natural hazards, intensified by climate change. In an increasingly insecure society, new perspectives and...
New case study about the Philippines: ‘Prisoners of climate change”
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has launched the Prisoners of Climate Change (PoCC) programme to address the growing climate risks in overcrowded prisons in the Philippines. With extreme overcrowding rates and increasing threats from extreme...
New topic page “Floods” online now!
We are pleased to present the new DKKV topic page “Floods”. There you can find out how floods occur, how climate change will affect future flood events, what flood protection measures are available and tips on how to take precautions yourself. You can also find...
Call For Abtracts EGU 2025: Advances in physical climate risk assessment for the financial and insurance sectors.
Climate change and environmental degradation pose a growing threat to social and economic systems, particularly due to the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. These developments could significantly damage sectors such as insurance and finance...
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What is disaster risk reduction?
Storms, natural hazards and extreme events can quickly become a danger to people and the environment. But climate change, extreme urbanization, power outages and fires also offer potential hazards.
A disaster occurs when the functioning of a community or society is impaired or interrupted and, as a result, high human, material, economic and ecological losses occur that cannot be managed alone.
Precautionary measures can help to reduce the consequences and impact of the disaster. Depending on the hazard and personal circumstances, the precautionary measures to be taken may vary.
Find out more about potential hazards and individual precautionary measures on our topic pages.