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The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction has developed a survey to evaluate progress in implementing the 2021-2030 European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction roadmap and the 2015-2030 Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction commitments relating to inclusive risk governance in Europe and Central Asia with a particular focus on the participation of children […]

This year it seemed that the earth is increasingly shaking in Middle East and surrounding regions. We experienced heavy disasters for example in Türkiye and Syria, Marocco, and Afghanistan. But also, countries like Iran, are highly risk prone to earthquakes. This knowledge transfer workshop is looking into operational insights, international aid mechanisms, lessons to learn/lessons […]

Was the COP28 climate summit in Dubai a success or a failure? UFZ climate economist and DKKV board member Reimund Schwarze comments on the results of COP28 in a statement. The main task of the COP was the global stocktake, which informed the states about their current national climate targets and contributions and at the […]

How do we as societies or groups perceive risks? How can the concept of society be understood and defined? And how should we think about and deal with risks in the future? Yesterday, Prof. Dr. Martin Voss from the Disaster Research Centre Berlin tried to find answers to these questions with his talk on risk […]

After a narrow failure, the almost 200 participating countries agreed on a text with many compromises during 36 hours of negotiations in Dubai. The UN describes the COP28 agreement as “the Beginning of the End of the Fossil Fuel Era”. This is about turning away from fossil fuels, but not a final phase-out. However, it […]

Carbon Market Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement allows international cooperation in order to meet the overarching goals of staying within 1,5C. This supranational collaboration entails the so called carbon markets, that allow the trade of carbon certificates. Some states do not support a central registration of all certificates in order to keep their own […]

Host for the COP29 confirmed COP29 in 2024 will take place in Azerbaijan. After Russia used its veto right to prevent the event from being held in Eastern Europe, the nations agreed on Azerbaijan. After Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, this means that another country whose economy is largely based on the export of […]

Conducting risk analysis during strategic planning excercises a) expands humanitarian focus from acute and urgent needs to chronic vulnerabilities and exposure to future risks, stress, and shocks, and b) helps integrate reduction of extreme vulnerability into planning to facilitate recovery, and therefore aims at preventing new and reducing existing risk, all of which contributes decrese […]