Enhancing Synergies Between Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction: A Comprehensive Risk Management Approach

When: Tuesday 28 March at 11am-12:30pm (GMT-3)

Where: Best Western Premier Marina Las Condes, Chile

Online access: Link

Hosts: UNEP, UNDRR, Adaptation Action Coalition, Risk-informed Early Action Partnership

Addressing the climate emergency requires effective mitigation, adaptation and disaster risk-reducing actions. It is critical to guard against risk-blind planning, particularly to avoid maladaptation and creating new risks. A comprehensive approach to risk management is therefore needed. Such an approach considers a number of factors to purposely strengthen synergies between disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, identifying mutually beneficial opportunities across policies and programmes.

This session at the NAP Expo 2023 will provide key recommendations on the benefits, needs, challenges and opportunities for expanding integrated planning and implementation. The session will address the following questions:

• Why is an integrated approach to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation important?
• What are some good practices across countries in following such integrated approaches?
• What advantages does integrated planning offer? What are the gaps, demands and needs among developing vulnerable countries to pursue integrated approaches?

For more information, please contact Lou.Perpes@un.org

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