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Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2023
Mapping Resilience for the Sustainable Development Goals
Global warming will surpass 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels during the next decade due to greenhouse gas emissions. The constant rise in temperatures and related impacts combine with other pressures thus increasing risk and undermining resilience. The increasing interconnectedness of people and human systems increases the risk of compound and cascading crises. The maps in this report highlight a number of these resilience deficits that are holding back achievement of key sustainable development goals. At the same time the report’s action case examples show that this is not inevitable and how action is possible on every continent to stop the worsening spiral of risk and disasters and to accelerate SDG target achievement. Addressing resilience gaps will require the unprecedented scaling-up of resilience investment and adaptation action both from within the public and private sectors particularly for the most vulnerable countries. As these investments take time to mobilize and prepare delay will increase the inevitable costs. Action is needed now. Disaster risk reduction sits at the nexus between development humanitarian and climate change action and can help foster more-sustainable resilient action in each. Readjusting development pathways requires a re-examination of how prosperity is measured and a greater emphasis on resilience as key element of sustainable development today and in the future.
Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2022
Our World at Risk: Transforming Governance for a Resilient Future
The central question for this year's report is how governance systems can evolve to better address the systemic risks of the future. In today’s crowded and interconnected world disaster impacts increasingly cascade across geographies and sectors as the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change are rapidly making clear. Despite progress risk creation is outstripping risk reduction. Disasters economic loss and the underlying vulnerabilities that drive risk such as poverty and inequality are increasing just as ecosystems and biospheres are at risk of collapse. The report highlights that a) the climate emergency and the systemic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic point to a new reality; b) understanding and reducing risk in a world of uncertainty is fundamental to achieving genuinely sustainable development; and c) the best defense against future shocks is to transform systems now to build resilience by addressing climate change and to reduce the vulnerability exposure and inequality that drive disasters.
Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2021
Special Report on Drought
Droughts have deep widespread and underestimated impacts on societies ecosystems and economies. They incur costs that are borne disproportionately by the most vulnerable people. The extensive impacts of drought are consistently underreported even though they span large areas cascade through systems and scales and linger through time affecting millions of people and contributing to food insecurity poverty and inequality. Climate change is increasing temperatures and disrupting rainfall patterns increasing the frequency severity and duration of droughts in many regions across the globe. As we move towards a 2˚C warmer world urgent action is required to better understand and more effectively manage drought risk to reduce the devastating toll on human lives and livelihoods and ecosystems. This report explores the systemic nature of drought and its impacts on achievement of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction the SDGs and human and ecosystems' health and wellbeing.
Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2019
The Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) is the flagship report of the United Nations on worldwide efforts to reduce disaster risk. The GAR is published biennially by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and is the product of the contributions of nations public and private risk-related science and research amongst others. The GAR contributes to achieving the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development through monitoring risk patterns and trends as well as progress in disaster risk reduction while providing strategic policy guidance to countries and the international community. The GAR aims to focus international attention on the issue of risk and encourage political and economic support for risk reduction.