Do you know the difference between disaster risk reduction (DRR) and disaster risk management (DRM)? 🤔
🎥 This is how DRR and DRM work together to build resilience. 👇
https://t.co/u1iCl3oObr
Disasters don't stop at borders – they move across the Western Balkans regardless of which country they strike first.
Bringing together Albania, North Macedonia, and Serbia, this initiative puts transboundary cooperation at its centre ➡️ https://t.co/yD0yiyHrPu
From risk governance to climate adaptation—today’s session on Capacity Building for Parliament on Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation, organized in collaboration with @NDMAmv and @mvpeoplesmajlis, supported by UNDP, help equip Parliamentarians with the tools to drive informed, resilient policymaking.
This initiative is supported by @UNDP Funding Windows partners — Governments of Denmark 🇩🇰 , Luxembourg 🇱🇺& South Korea 🇰🇷
@DanishMFA@Denmark_UN@LuxembourgUN@MFA_Lu@ROK_Mission@MOFAkr_eng
#COP30#Belém#Brasil
"1.5°C goal, is the red line limit for humanity"
If it reach the limit, the world would enter a zone of dangerous and potentially irreversible climate impacts. Good news, after few centuries, the earth would be a thriving planet again, just without human.
Today marks the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Disasters don’t have to be devastating.
Preparedness saves lives.
Disasters are not natural. It can be prevented.
#DRRDay#DisasterRiskReduction
Fund resilience. Not disasters
https://t.co/Y4Pkwb4ylA
$2.3 trillion: that's how much disasters cost us each year! 💸
If we were to invest more in preventing disasters, so much of that lost money could be spent on making the world a better place ➡️ https://t.co/zhaRi7iBK0 #DRRday#ResiliencePays
This is how agricultural drones are helping make deserts fertile. 🛸🌱🌱
In Mauritania 🇲🇷. @FAO is introducing innovative solutions – like agricultural drones to seed for land restoration. This technology allows small communities to restore larger areas in less time.
Request for Quotationl!
Procurement of Essential Rescue Equipment for MPS (RIDS in SIDS)
Apply by: 8 July 2025, 3PM MDV time
More info: https://t.co/XAEWhedMhC
The Disaster Operations Centre in Abuja, Nigeria, opened in June 2023, adding to the African Multi Hazards Early Warning System for Early Action.
A warning of just 24 hours can reduce ensuing damage by up to 30 percent. #EarlyWarningsForAll
Read more 👉 https://t.co/Ai17Q5grVM
At the start of my international career, my father gave me a simple yet important piece of advice: never promote tobacco. I have lived by it, and so can you. Let us choose health over tobacco for a better future.
#WorldNoTobaccoDay
Simulations are essential to test early warning approaches, sensitize communities, and ensure effectiveness.
♿ Organizations of persons with disabilities must be included at all stages of planning.
Learn more ➡️ https://t.co/SZGABzjFBR #PWD
Tsunamis kill more people than any other sudden-onset natural hazard. 🌊
Most are caused by seismic activity, like earthquakes under or near the ocean, but they can also result from landslides or volcanoes.
Learn more 👉 https://t.co/svNz34c48h
#GetToHighGround
🖐️STOP! The words you use matter!
It's time to stop talking about "natural disasters".
Disasters are caused by human actions and neglect – there is nothing natural about that.
➡️ https://t.co/3ioEIshwWn #NoNaturalDisasters
Dams, on average, are designed to last around 50-100 years. @UNUniversity says many are operating beyond their life design and may need adaptation to a changing climate 🌊 https://t.co/2THHy5eCUq