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The Third Session of Disaster Resilience Week (1st Day)

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)

Part of Disaster Resilience Week 2021 and 1 more

Past Event

Monday, Aug 23, 2021
3:30 AM - 9:00 AM (UTC)

Hosts

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)

Watch On

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9OCHzI_ql8

Languages

English
English

Channels

Awareness Days

Climate & Environment

COVID-19

Government & Politics

Health

Sustainable Development

Opening Keynotes : 10:30 - 11:00 Virtual (MS Teams and YouTube webcast) Organizing Partner(s): United Nations Satellite Centre (UNITAR-UNOSAT)
  • Mr. Nikhil Seth, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Director, United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)
  • Mr. Kaveh Zahedi, Deputy Executive Secretary for Sustainable Development, UNESCAP
  • Launch of The Risk and Resilience Portal- An Asia Pacific Disaster Resilience Network Initiative (Video)
Theme Session on the disaster-climate-health riskscape : 11:00 - 12:00 Virtual (MS Teams and YouTube webcast) Organizing Partner(s): United Nations Satellite Centre (UNITAR-UNOSAT)
  • Brief presentation of The Risk and Resilience Portal of the Asia Pacific Disaster Resilience Network by ESCAP and UNITAR-UNOSAT
  • Expert discussion on the disaster-climate-health  riskscape
Panelists: Papua New Guinea, AHA Centre Disaster Resilience partnerships with ESCAP : 12:00 - 12:10 Virtual (MS Teams and YouTube webcast) Video on partnership agreements Break : 12:10 - 13:00 The Regional Learning Platform on Strengthening Disaster, Climate and Health Resilience: 13:00 - 14:15 Virtual (MS Teams and YouTube webcast) Session 1: Policy Coherence Organizing Partner(s): UNDRR, Thailand (MFA) Expert discussion session on the process of including biological and natural hazards into a multi-hazard framework. Towards building resilience post COVID-19, the session will further discuss the potential for inclusion of cascading risks into the multi-hazard framework.
  • Panelists: UNDRR, Thailand, WHO, Rockerfeller Foundation
The Regional Learning Platform on Strengthening Disaster, Climate and Health Resilience: 14:30 - 15:45 Virtual (MS Teams and YouTube webcast) Session 2: Multi-hazard integrated early warning systems Organizing Partner(s): WMO, Republic of Korea (NDMI)
  • Expert discussion session on pathways to facilitate regional cooperation on integrated early warning systems for natural and biological hazards to address complex and cascading risks, include through leveraging the Asia-Pacific Disaster Resilience Network and the annual sub subregional and national climate outlook forums.
Panelists: WMO, Republic of Korea (NDMI), UK Met Office, RIMES

Hosts

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)