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Disaster Risk Reduction: The international perspective RUSI Resilience Conference 2014 London, UK 14 November 2014 Paola Albrito Head of Regional Office for Europe United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)

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This is a presentation by Paola Albrito at the RUSI Resilience Conference 2014.

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Disaster Risk Reduction: The international perspective

RUSI Resilience Conference 2014London, UK14 November 2014

Paola AlbritoHead of Regional Office for EuropeUnited Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)

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• Three consecutive years: annual economic losses have exceeded $100 billion globally due to enormous increase in exposure of industrial assets and private property to extreme disaster events.

• Europe’s 10-year average of disaster losses totaling to US$ 13.4 billion makes it the third most affected region

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Disaster risk in Europe

US$ 13.4 billion makes it the third most affected region in the world after the Americas and Asia.

• OECD countries’ disaster economic losses tend to grow faster than their average GDP growth.

• Most of the damages are due to climatological and hydrometeorological events.

• Reduced number of casualties, but high economic losses.

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Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015:Building the resilience of nations and

communities to disasters

Five priorities for action

1. Governance: ensure that disaster risk reduction is a national and local priority with strong institutional basis for implementation

2. Risk identification: identify, assess and monitor disaster risks and enhance early warning

3. Knowledge: use knowledge, innovation and education to build a culture of safety and resilience at all levels

4. Reducing the underlying risk factors in various sectors (environment, health, construction, etc.)

5. Strengthen disaster preparedness for effective response

Words Into Action: A Guide for Implementing the Hyogo Framework www.unisdr.org/eng/hfa/docs/Words-into-action/Words-Into-Action.pdf

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Addressing the underlying risk

factors in Europe: HFA Priority 4

• Reducing the underlying risk factors remains challenging for several European countries, including the UK. This is especially due to the difficulties 4.5 especially due to the difficulties and costs of addressing vulnerabilities of existing developments, especially infrastructure, and the low public visibility of such efforts.

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Lessons learnt in 10 years of HFA

implementation in Europe

• Disaster prevention and risk reduction – as documented in the GAR – is a cost effective investment for national and local governments. The most cost effective measure is good planning of land use and infrastructure development, which bring a cost benefit ratio of 1 (invested) to 4 (return).

• Vulnerabilities to disasters are due to multiple factors of social, political, economic and environmental nature. social, political, economic and environmental nature. Hydrological disaster are the costliest disaster for European countries, including the UK. Most of them are caused by degradation of the hydro-geological conditions due to soil sealing.

• DRR needs coordination and synergy at multiple levels of governance (international, national and local) and disciplines (civil protection, defense, public-private partnerships, environment, health, education, agriculture, etc.)

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Emerging trends globally – 2015

Global Assessment Report (GAR15)

Disaster risks ���� globalising :

• Need to reduce generation of new risks.

• Promote economic advantage of investing in DRR/M.

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Urbanising risk:

• Need to enhance urban risk management and develop resilience.

• Undertake structural and non structural measures to reduce disaster risk, including housing and land use management with DRR considerations.

Risk governance and translation of policies to practices:

• Still a challenge to factor DRR into public investment, development and social policies.

• Still lack of coordination and advocacy for public-private partnership and translate policies into practices.

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Implications for UK

international aid

Without concrete and fast action, the rising number of disasters will challenge the capacities and resources for international aid of the UK as well as the whole international system.

�UK should ensure that ODA is not generating new risk

�UK should ensure that ODA investments are protected from disaster risk

�UK should invest in prevention domestically now to avoid draining financial aid budgets in the future.

�UK as a thought leader for resilience should actively participate in the development of the post-2015 framework for DRR.

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Post-2015 Framework for

Disaster Risk Reduction

Three complementary goals:

1. Risk avoidance – pursuit of a development path that minimize risk accumulationpath that minimize risk accumulation

2. Risk reduction – reducing existing accumulated risks

3. Resilience – nations and communities that can absorb losses, minimize impacts and bounce forward

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Thank you

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

UNISDR Regional Office for Europe

UN House, 14 Rue Montoyer

1000 Brussels, Belgium

T: +32 (0) 22 902 588

F: +32 (0) 22 904 950

[email protected]

www.unisdr.org

www.unisdr.org/europe