Africa: What You Need to Know About DRR

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Nairobi — A new global plan to prepare for future natural and climate-linked disasters agreed in Sendai, Japan today has been condemned by development NGOs as lacking in ambition and short-changing poorer countries that are most at risk.

The World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction agreed a framework for the next 15 years that outlines seven global targets, including a "substantial reduction in global disaster mortality, a substantial reduction in numbers of affected people and a reduction in economic losses in relation to global [Gross Domestic Product]". It however avoided numerical targets and lacks the concrete financial commitments that activists had hoped for.

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