The Global Assessment Report (GAR) 2025 of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) was officially published on May 27, 2025. The report is entitled “Resilience Pays: Financing and Investing for our Future” and places a special focus on how investments in disaster risk reduction and risk reduction bring long-term social and economic benefits. It uses case studies and analysis to show how innovative financing models and inclusive policy approaches can help strengthen the resilience of societies to natural disasters and other risks. The report is aimed at both governments and financial institutions and calls for risk reduction to be embedded as a central part of economic and social planning, for transparency of risks and for awareness of the true costs of disasters.
The PDF is available here.
The UNDRR website also offers videos and virtual representations to illustrate the report’s findings.
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