For its tenth edition in 2019 the COAL Prize will, in collaboration with the Platform on Disaster Displacement and DISPLACEMENT: Uncertain Journeys, tackle an essential subject: displacement related to disasters and climate change. Since 2009, an estimated one person per second has been…
The Regional Consultation towards a framework for regional cooperation on human mobility in the context of disasters and the adverse effects of climate change in the Caribbean will take place on 6-7 June, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.…
The final version of the Words into Action Guidelines– Disaster displacement: How to reduce risk, address impacts and strengthen resilience (Words into Action on Disaster Displacement) was officially launched during the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP19), receiving interest…
Attorney Leah Caminong and Ms. Nur Safriti Lasibanj held a whole room in silence. Telling their own stories of how they had been displaced in the context of disaster during the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP19) side event…
In collaboration with the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), DISPLACEMENT: Uncertain Journeys will present an exhibition of contemporary art pieces from nine international artists to highlight…
Geneva, Switzerland 13-17 May 2019 – Disaster Displacement will be a prominent topic at the 2019 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP19), notably addressed in a working session on disaster displacement and DRR and a side event on the human…
Suva, Fiji, 27 March 2019 - Participants from governments, the European Union (EU), UN agencies and civil society opened a two-day consultation today to address the risk of displacement associated with disasters and climate change in the Pacific island states…
Background The Pacific region is extremely vulnerable to climate change and natural hazards which intersects with all domains of human security contributing to migration flows, displacement and relocation within and outside the sub-region. To support Pacific Island Governments to address…
Background In 2018 leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum endorsed the Boe Declaration, which recognizes climate change as the single greatest threat to the livelihoods, security, and wellbeing of the peoples of the Pacific. The Framework for Resilience Development in…
Annual Thematic Meeting of the Platform on Disaster Displacement Striving together for addressing displacement due to slow and sudden-onset disasters The Chair of the PDD, the Government of Bangladesh, convened the Annual Thematic Meeting of the Platform on Disaster…
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