Africa: UN Launches Partnerships, Tools to Tether Economic Investment to Disaster Risk Planning

19 May 2014

Launching an initiative to mainstream disaster risk management into business investment, the United Nations today showcased a digital globe that viscerally lays out current and possible future effects of climate change and other threats, to help stem rampant economic loss from geographic events.

The initiative, called R!SE, "provides a new formula for averting economic losses from disasters, which are a major brake on economic growth and development," UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson said at the launch, organized in New York by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR).

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