The third session of the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction ended on Friday with a call for coordinating efforts to make communities more resilient in the face of disasters. “Participants at the third Global Platform have recognized the urgency we face and realized clearly that the world needs to act quickly and in concrete ways to make the world safer,” the United Nations Secretary-General’s special representative for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Margareta Wahlström, said during her presentation of the chair’s summary. Read More
