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Sendai Framework
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- A Global Assessment Report (GAR) was launched by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).
- It has warned of new and larger threats due to extreme climate changes with specific reference to Asia Pacific economies.
- The report has outlined major risk to human life from
- air pollution
- biological hazards
- natural disasters like floods, landslides and earthquakes
- It projects economic losses to the extent of 4% of GDP annually if countries don’t invest in Disaster Risk Reduction.
- The GAR report urges to put Sendai Framework into immediate action.
What is it?
- It was adopted by UN member states in 2015.
- It talks about reducing disaster mortalities and economic losses.
- It aims to strengthen risk governance by investing in early warning system.
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