Columbia Climate School Students Take On Coastal Flooding at a U.N. Conference At the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction Summit, a team of postgrad and current students worked through the night on a multimedia presentation of hazard predictions and proposed solutions.

Columbia Climate School students tackle coastal flooding at the UNDRR conference for an international hackathon known as the U.N. Foresight Sprint. ow.ly/6AB050WjKSO #GPDRR2025 @climate.columbia.edu

Please note that we struggle with data availability, consistency, & credibility to demonstrate that disasters are "📈 in number & intensity" engelsbergideas.com/essays/when-...

#DRR #GPDRR2025 #GP2025 #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (no #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR

When disaster strikes Disasters result from vulnerabilities in our social fabric and a lack of preparedness for new threats. Those with the fewest options have the most to lose.

Please note that we struggle with data availability, consistency, & credibility to demonstrate that disasters are becoming "more frequent and intense" engelsbergideas.com/essays/when-...

#DRR #GPDRR2025 #GP2025 #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (no #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR

With development aid budgets shrinking, discussions on financing at the 8th Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction turned to climate funds as well as domestic sources

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#GPDRR2025 #DRR #FfD

[Voices for early warning: CREWS at the Ignite Stage] | Climate Risk & Early Warning Systems (CREWS) Initiative [Voices for early warning: CREWS at the Ignite Stage] Last week, the presentations at the #GPDRR2025 Ignite Stage were successfully delivered, sharing powerful stories and key lessons from CREWS pro...

Last week, the presentations at the #GPDRR2025 Ignite Stage were successfully delivered, sharing powerful stories and key lessons from CREWS programmes in Togo, Afghanistan, and Southeast Asia. Thanks to all the speakers for representing CREWS.

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Following a huge week at #GPDRR2025, the @ifrc.org hosted a Heat Early Warning Systems and Heat Action Plan workshop with participants from across @zcralliance.bsky.social and the Urban Climate Resilience Program.

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While the #gp2025 #gpdrr2025 was happening, I was visiting #Iceland, a country where the population lives together with #volcanoes, #earthquakes, & #glaciers. Iceland still benefits from them & despite past #disasters & #climatechange. How? Through #prevention & #mitigation involving infancy

Anticipatory Action saves lives and livelihoods. It deserves a place in the centre of disaster risk reduction efforts.

Deike Potzel making the case at #GPDRR2025 :

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As #disasters become more frequent and intense, countries are looking at ways to enhance response and recovery

#AI tech hold promise, but can be "a double-edged sword," warn experts at #GPDRR2025

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#DRR #ArtificialIntelligence

#GPDRR2025 closing ceremony: Kamal Kishore, Global Platform Co-Chair, called on all to consolidate progress in bringing down the disaster mortality rate by 50%, develop national DRR plans by "organizing the money", and elevate local participation and action.
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Anticipatory Action saves lives and livelihoods. It deserves a place in the centre of disaster risk reduction efforts.

Deike Potzel making the case at #GPDRR2025 :

@undrr.bsky.social

Laurent identifies the Resilience Maturity Assessment (ReMA) Tool, developed by @undrr.bsky.social & Corporate Chief Resilience Officers (CCRO) network, as a positive step.

ReMA is designed to identify where small/medium-sized businesses are on a 'resilience maturity curve'. #GPDRR2025

For Laurent Giezendanner (Syngenta Group), there is a need to incentivise the private sector to invest. How to do this?

"It's one thing to say we need to collaborate, it's another to identify *how* we collaborate."

#GPDRR2025

Informal businesses are not ideally set up for the kind of long-term planning required for DRR.

"Caribbean Chambers of Commerce has established a business continuity toolkit to assess vulnerabilities, and it's being localized".
#GPDRR2025

"Access to finance in the Carribean is a major hurdle," notes Petipha Lewis, Caribbean Chambers of Commerce. "Most small businesses don't have the capital to invest in #DRR".

High borrowing costs and lending criteria also barriers.
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Thoughts from the room on the barriers and enablers that currently exist where private investment in resilience is concerned. #GPDRR2025

"That's my key takeaway for the future - to move from single hazards to the multi-hazard perspective."

Reflections on the 'Equity in Action: Early Warnings for All People' session at #GPDRR2025, from Manuel von der Mühlen and Mohammad Shazed (@planglobal.bsky.social)

Brenda and Gabriel from @ifrc.org taking #GPDRR2025 attendees through the @zcralliance.bsky.social program in Mexico.

Thanks to all who stopped by! #ActForResilienceToday

#GPDRR2025 Special Event on SIDS. On embedding DRR in national development strategies, Robert Jules Ernesta (left), asks: "Is DRR not a national security issue?"

Walton A. Webson, Antigua&Barbuda: "We need to move away from project thinking and move toward process thinking."

#ActForResilienceToday

In #GPDRR2025 multistakeholder plenary on harnessing strategic foresight & innovation, Velenkosini Hlabisa, Minister of Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs, South Africa: "Innovation isn’t just about technology; it’s about new ways of thinking & working together."

#ActForResilienceToday

Trust is key, so long-standing presence in the community can help make the required connections to national governments.

@planglobal.bsky.social #GPDRR2025

In collaboration with national institutions, a new simple but effective keyword-based, traffic-light alert system has been produced in El Salvador. Communities are now more likely to get the alert, and know what action to take.

@planglobal.bsky.social #GPDRR2025

#EarlyWarningSystems had impact at the local level in El Salvador, but it was also important to establish connections between the communities and the national institutions.

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Over to Manuel von der Müehlen for a look at @planglobal.bsky.social's inter-communal Early Warning System in El Salvador. #GPDRR2025

In partnership with @ifrc.org and others, @planglobal.bsky.social developed a toolkit to help identify and close gaps with a Gender, Equality & Social Inclusion (#GESI) perspective. #GPDRR2025

The same hazards impact people in different ways.

"In a disaster, women and girls are often the last to eat, and get the least."

Also loss of access to education, and increased risk of violence.

@planglobal.bsky.social #GPDRR2025

Next up is Chiara Ambrosino, examining how protection, gender and inclusive principles can be integrated into anticipatory action.

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"in this journey with the youth, we're not just working with them, we're investing in them... They are the solution, they are ready. Are we all ready to support them?".

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We're back to the Ignite Stage at #GPDRR2025 this morning, where @planglobal.bsky.social will provide insight into inter-communal Early Warning Systems in El Salvador.

10:30am-10:45am
See you there!