Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2022

GAR2022 outlines how immediate action around these three areas can help governments, local communities and individuals better position themselves to cope with a volatile, uncertain future. The keys to building resilience and accelerating sustainable development are measuring what we value, designing systems around the way people make decisions on risk, and reconfiguring governance and financial systems to work collaboratively and across silos. As climate change impacts gather pace, we know what is at stake for future generations.

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Bridging Gaps: Connecting Climate Change Risk Assessments with Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation Agendas

Changing climates and increasing variability, in combination with maladaptive societal responses, present many threats and risks to both social and biophysical systems. The outcomes of such changes will progressively affect all aspects of ecosystem functioning including social, political, and economic landscapes. Coordination between the three frameworks that govern risk at national and subnational scales, climate change risk assessments, climate adaptation planning and disaster risk reduction (DRR), is often lacking or limited. This has resulted in a siloed and fragmented approach to climate action. By examining risk as a dynamic social construction that is reimagined and reinvented by society over time, this chapter explores how a greater degree of cohesion between these three frameworks might be achieved.

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Promoting Nature-based Solutions in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

This paper was developed as input to the evolving deliberations on the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). It sets out general principles by which Nature-based Solutions (NbS) can contribute to addressing biodiversity loss and ensuring people benefit from nature. Strengthening the emphasis on NbS in the GBF has the potential to bring about transformational change in society’s relationship with nature, accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and ensure that, by 2050, the shared vision of living in harmony with nature is fulfilled.

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Words into Action: Nature-based Solutions for Disaster Risk Reduction

Cheap, effective and scalable, Nature-based Solutions (NbS) can help governments address the growing challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, increased frequency of extreme weather and natural hazards as well as other human-made environmental disasters. Defined as actions that protect, sustainably manage and restore natural or modified ecosystems, NbS address many societal challenges while providing human well-being and biodiversity benefits. While support for NbS is growing around the world, uptake varies widely from region to region due to differing levels of economic development and funding, skepticism over evidence of long-term benefits and many other interconnected factors. With this in mind, we developed this Words into Action: Nature-based Solutions for Disaster Risk Reduction guide. It offers practical, expert-informed guidance on setting up and implementing NbS, especially for disaster risk reduction (DRR), but also for climate change adaptation. Designed to help implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, this Words into Action guide will assist countries in advancing their national disaster risk reduction and climate strategies with ample evidence and practical examples of Nature-based Solutions that are already benefiting billions of people.

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POLICY BRIEF ACHIEVING RISK REDUCTION ACROSS SENDAI, PARIS AND THE SDGS

The purpose of this document is to set out key policy messages based on the synergies and coherence between the major global agreements of Sendai, Paris and the SDGs1 – with specific reference to systemic and cascading risks. This focus is because of the extreme widespread and long-lasting potential impacts of such events. These impacts could have long-lasting negative effects on the livelihoods and well-being of people, economies and countries, undermining development and the achievement of the SDGs. This brief should be read as complementary to material dealing with frequent, smaller events and the day-to-day emergencies that affect hundreds of millions regularly.

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Partnership for Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction

PEDRR is the clearinghouse for knowledge, training, advocacy and practice on Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR). Eco-DRR is the sustainable management, conservation and restoration of ecosystems to reduce disaster risk, with the aim to achieve sustainable and resilient development. Well-managed ecosystems, such as wetlands, forests and coastal systems, act as natural infrastructure, reducing physical exposure to many hazards and increasing socio-economic resilience of people and communities by sustaining local livelihoods and providing essential natural resources such as food, water and building materials.

UNDRR: CLIMATE ACTION ANDDISASTER RISK REDUCTION

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Friends of Ecosystem-based Adaptation (FEBA)

Friends of EbA (FEBA) is a global collaborative network of 90+ agencies and organisations involved in Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) working jointly to share experiences and knowledge, to improve the implementation of EbA related activities on the ground, and to have a stronger and more strategic learning and policy influence on EbA.

POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH

From natural science to social science, from risks to solutions, from identifying Planetary Boundaries to managing Global Commons: The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) is advancing the frontier of integrated research for global sustainability, and for a safe and just climate future. A member of the Leibniz Association, the institute is based in Potsdam, Brandenburg and connected with the global scientific community. Drawing on excellent research, PIK provides relevant scientific advice for policy decision-making. The institute’s international staff of about 400 is led by a committed interdisciplinary team of Directors. This is science – for a safe tomorrow.

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How to Ensure a Resilient Global Biodiversity Framework to Disaster and Climate Risks?

This event, co-convened by the Partnership for Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction (PEDRR), Friends of Ecosystem-based Adaptation (FEBA), and the Geneva Environment Network aimed at drawing attention to the importance of integrating resilience in the Global Biodiversity Framework for greater alignment with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the Paris Agreement and the new Glasgow Pact, prior to the final face-to-face negotiations of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework to take place early in 2022.

Integrating disaster and climate risk into the SDGs

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