Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 21 hours ago
🌪️ Disasters don’t have to be deadly.
🌍 Strong risk governance is the key to turning extreme weather and hazards into manageable risks—not human tragedies.
From national strategies to local action, countries around the world are making progress:
📈 131 countries have national disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies
🏘️ 110 countries have local DRR strategies
🤝 Civil society, academia, and the private sector are stepping up
But why are disasters still taking such a heavy toll on people and economies?
This video explores how we can build truly resilient societies through strong governance, solid policies, and inclusive planning. When local communities, governments, and investors have the tools, data, and resources they need, they can act early, reduce exposure, and protect development gains.
📊 Let’s turn risk data into action.
🤝 Let’s work together across sectors.
🌱 Let’s invest in resilience that lasts.
Every Day Counts, Act for Resilience Today.
#GP2025 #ActForResilienceToday
Visit the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2025: globalplatform.undrr.org
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About UNDRR:
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) has a big ambition: to help decision-makers across the globe better understand and act on risk. At UNDRR, we believe there is no such thing as a natural disaster. A natural hazard, such as a hurricane, earthquake, tsunami, or flood, only becomes a disaster when it impacts a community that is not adequately protected and whose population is vulnerable as a result of poverty, exclusion, or social disadvantage. We envision a world where disasters no longer threaten the well-being of people and the future of the planet. Sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda cannot be achieved without working towards the goal of building resilience.
Learn more about UNDRR: undrr.org
Learn more about disaster risk reduction: preventionweb.net
Sign up for updates: undrr.org/subscribe-undrr-updates
Follow:
linkedin.com/company/undrr
twitter.com/UNDRR
facebook.com/unisdr
🌪️ Disasters don’t have to be deadly.
🌍 Strong risk governance is the key to turning extreme weather and hazards into manageable risks—not human tragedies.
From national strategies to local action, countries around the world are making progress:
📈 131 countries have national disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies
🏘️ 110 countries have local DRR strategies
🤝 Civil society, academia, and the private sector are stepping up
But why are disasters still taking such a heavy toll on people and economies?
This video explores how we can build truly resilient societies through strong governance, solid policies, and inclusive planning. When local communities, governments, and investors have the tools, data, and resources they need, they can act early, reduce exposure, and protect development gains.
📊 Let’s turn risk data into action.
🤝 Let’s work together across sectors.
🌱 Let’s invest in resilience that lasts.
Every Day Counts, Act for Resilience Today.
#GP2025 #ActForResilienceToday
Visit the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2025: globalplatform.undrr.org
************
Subscribe to UNDRR on YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCUw0G3AdE_0EDhcDPlJtJyA?sub_confirmation=1
Captions: Where possible we provide additional captions to make our videos more accessible to those who use assistive technology, such as screen readers. If you don't require the captions they can be toggled off using the CC button, usually at the bottom of the video display.
About UNDRR:
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) has a big ambition: to help decision-makers across the globe better understand and act on risk. At UNDRR, we believe there is no such thing as a natural disaster. A natural hazard, such as a hurricane, earthquake, tsunami, or flood, only becomes a disaster when it impacts a community that is not adequately protected and whose population is vulnerable as a result of poverty, exclusion, or social disadvantage. We envision a world where disasters no longer threaten the well-being of people and the future of the planet. Sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda cannot be achieved without working towards the goal of building resilience.
Learn more about UNDRR: undrr.org
Learn more about disaster risk reduction: preventionweb.net
Sign up for updates: undrr.org/subscribe-undrr-updates
Follow:
linkedin.com/company/undrr
twitter.com/UNDRR
facebook.com/unisdr
