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The second annual Disaster Preparedness Forum hosted by CSR Asia and sponsored by the Prudence Foundation builds on the success of the first Disaster Preparedness Forum (DPF) held in Jakarta in November 2013. The Forum brings together key leaders in business, humanitarian, NGO and government sectors across the Asia-Pacific region. The aim of this year’s event is to explore and discuss opportunities for cooperation on disaster recovery with a focus on building capacities well before a disaster occurs.
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The 23rd SRA-Europe conference will be held 16-18 June 2014 in Istanbul, Turkey and hosted by Istanbul Technical University. The special theme of the conference is “Analysis and Governance of Risks beyond Boundaries”
• to emphasize that risks are able to travel through the virtual boundaries labeled as “regions”, “territories” and “countries”, • to promote recent scientific novelties in risk reduction and • to enhance inter-disciplinary approaches to develop new strategies in both evaluating and coping with well-known and less-known risks.
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The Sixth Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, hosted by the Royal Government of Thailand will be held in Bangkok, Thailand on 22-26 June 2014 . The Conference will be a venue for countries, organizations and individual practitioners to meet and discuss the way forward in reducing disaster risk in the region. It will also be the final regional inter-governmental meeting in Asia before the completion of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-15 and the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in 2015.
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The IRDR Programme, in partnership with the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), will host the 2nd IRDR Conference, under the theme "Integrated Disaster Risk Science: A Tool for Sustainability" from 7 to 9 June 2014 at the Beijing International Convention Center (BICC) in Beijing, China.
The Conference will place emphasis on the importance of science as a tool to address hazard risks and issues of sustainable development.
On 02 April 2014 the United Nations Office of Disaster Risk Reduction UNISDR invited the International Business Community to a month-long round of online consultations. Businesses from around the world are invited to engage in debate on how to reduce existing risk exposure, focusing on the exchange of information and business solutions to create synergy between the public and private sectors with the goal of reducing disaster risks for cities, supply chains and businesses.
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An international conference in Nepal next month aims to show how to unlock finance that can help communities in developing countries adapt to climate change.
The 8th International Conference on Community Based Adaptation (CBA8) on 24-30 April will explore ways to encourage the private sector to invest in adaptation and ensure that public finance reaches communities that need it.
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