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The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction warns disasters are expected to increase by 40 percent by 2030.Marco Toscano Rivalta, UNDRR chief of the regional office for Asia and the Pacific made this statement on Thursday's launch of the Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Manila.“The stark projection indicates that we are going off course from the goal we set in the Global Blueprint for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Sendai Framework in 2015.
Around 2,500 delegates from 62 countries are expected to participate in the conference. Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. said one of the direct impacts of the conference is the opportunity to access risk financing.Funds for disaster response and rehabilitation, Teodoro added, are already thinly stretched due to worsening disasters.
United Nations Office For Disaster Risk Reduction Disasters Gilberto Teodoro Jr DENR
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