“Disaster risk reduction is everybody’s business.”

This is the unequivocal message of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), noting the enormous impact of disasters on people across the globe, with economic losses now estimated at $300 billion a year. Global warming and climate change have made natural disasters such as earthquakes, typhoons and hurricanes more severe, with the Philippines named as one of the countries most vulnerable to these disasters.

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