Community Sessions

Responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Disaster Risk Management
Organizer: GFDRR, University of Toronto, Deltares
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Harnessing the Evolution of Earth Observations and Risk
Organizer: Earth Observations (GEO)
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The Power of Partnership: Sparkling Public, Private and Academia Engagement in Hydromet services
Organizer: World Bank/GFDRR
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The Risk Data Library Project: Developing an Open Standard for Risk Data
Organizer: Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery GFDRR
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Racism, Exclusion & Risk: Making Meaning Matters
Organizer: GFDRR
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Racism, Exclusion & Risk: Harnessing Humor for Hard Conversations
Organizer: Organizer: Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery and the World Bank’s Social Sustainability and Inclusion Global Practice.
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Building Climate Resilience Together: Race for Resilience Along Shared Marrakech Partnership Pathways
Organizer: GRP / CRN + FAO/A2R *this session is part of the Development & Climate Days
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Reshaping a Resilient Future in Response to COVID-19
Organizer: Global Resilience Partnership (GRP), Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC), World Resources Institute (WRI), International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Complex Systems in Transition (CST) *this session is part of the Development & Climate Days
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On Bullshit, Candor, and Climate Risk: Reconciling Intent, Words and Actions
Organizer: Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre *this session is part of the Development & Climate Days
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Disaster Risk and Resilience: Understanding Perceptions, Exploring Possibilities Lessons to be Learnt from the Curious Way of Life
Organizer: Confederation of Risk Reduction Professionals (CRRP), Risk & Resilience Institute (RRI)
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Nature-based Solutions: Balancing Risk and Societal Benefits
Organizer: Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, University of Bologna, IHE Delft, ICATALIST
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What Do We Learn When We Map a City? Voices and impacts from Open Cities Africa
Organizer: World Bank / GFDRR; Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)
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How Big is Your Appetite (For Making a Difficult Decision)?
Organizer: Satarla
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Understanding and assessing climate change risk to cultural heritage: The Climate Vulnerability Index applied to the Caribbean forts
Organizer: CVI, James Cook University, ICOMOS, INES Ingenieros, WeArchitects, Moun Studi
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Multiform Flood Risk in a Complex Future Flooded World: Earth Observation and Complex Systems for Compound Risk Assessment
Organizer: The World Bank Group
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Understanding Risk Financing and Assessment: Living Case Studies
Organizer: The World Bank Group – Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance Program
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Systems Approach to Flood Forecasting Putting the Pieces Together
Organizer: RMSI
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Precipitation in Africa: the future of observation, nowcasting and forecasting
Organizer: HKV, GMet, KNMI, NADMO, TAHMO
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Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems: Enabling early and effective action to Tropical Cyclones
Organizer: World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
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Taking the Risk Out of Using Risk Profiles: The Risk Viewer Tool for Latin America and Caribbean
Organizer: World Bank
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Evaluating COVID-19 Transmission in Cities: The COVID-19 City Disaster Vulnerability Index
Organizer: World Bank
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From Black Swans to Boiling Frogs: How to Understand Risk, Visualize Risk Scenarios, and Build Agency for Early Action
Organizer: NASA and Earth Observatory of Singapore
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Nature-based Solutions for Flood Risk Management in Southeast Asia: How Much Do We (Not) Know?
Organizer: Nanyang Technological University
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Virtual Site Visit: Green Infrastructure and Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Flood Resilience in Singapore
Organizer: World Bank – Urban, Disaster Risk Management (DRM), Resilience, and Land GP; World Bank – Urban Floods Community of Practice (UFCOP); Public Utilities Board (PUB) Singapore; National University of Singapore (NUS)
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Risk Information from the Decision Maker’s Perspective: What They Wish You Knew and What They Need You To Tell Them
Organizer: REAP
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Designing Schools of the Future to Build Education Resilience post COVID-19
Organizer: The World Bank’s Global Program for Safer Schools, The World Bank Education Global Practice
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Catching Fire: Evolving wildfire response for catastrophic events
Organizer: World Bank
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AIESEC: Rebuilding a Youthtopia
Organizer: AIESEC in National University of Singapore
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Earthquake Disaster Preparedness Through Public Engagement
Organizer: Miyamoto International in collaboration with the University of Tokyo (Disaster Management Training Center)
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Understanding risk through games
Organizer: Earth Observatory of Singapore
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Carousel Talks: Latest Developments in the Science and Technology for Early Warning Early Action – Researchers Edition
Organizer: Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre
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An Interdisciplinary Approach to Forecasting and Early Warning Systems: A Role Paying Game
Organizer: Water Youth Network, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Center of Applied Research in Hydrometeorology (CRAHI) University of Reading
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Map Your City’s Future: A Spatial Data for Resilience Workshop
Organizer: World Bank City Resilience Program (CRP); GFDRR
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Racism, Exclusion & Risk: Harnessing Humor for Hard Conversations
Organizer: Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery and the World Bank’s Social Sustainability and Inclusion Global Practice.
It builds off a World Bank Anti-Racism workshop developed by World Bank’s Social Sustainability and Inclusion Global Practice.
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Getting Hotter? Screening Public Investment Projects for Climate Change Using Digital Mapping Platforms
Organizer: Singapore Swiss Technical University Centre
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Risk Thinking Versus Resilience Thinking
Organizer: Royal HaskoningDHV
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Land and Geospatial Information Systems: A Cornerstone to Improve Resilience
Organizer: The World Bank
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Are Present-day Infrastructure Disaster Risk Models Still Applicable in a Post Covid-19 World?
Organizer: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Lloyds Register Foundation, Resilience Shift, University of Oxford
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Misinformation, Disinformation, and Risk: When Science Alone Doesn’t Cut It
Organizer: BBC Media Action, NASA, Columbia University Earth Institute’s International Research Institute with Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre
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Crossroads: Managing Intersecting Risks of Conflict, Violence, Disasters and Climate Change
Organizer: GIZ, UNDP, ODI, IFRC, ICRC, EU
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Extreme Wildfire Development: Why, Where and When?
Organizer: FM Global
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Understanding Risk Through Games: An Up Close and Intimate Session
Organizer: Earth Observatory of Singapore
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Resilience Academy as a Sustainability Solution for Urban Resilience Skills Development in Africa
Organizer: University of Turku – Finland, Ardhi University – Dar es Salaam, Sokoine University of Agriculture – Zanzibar, University of Dar es Salaam – Dar es Salaam, State University of Zanzibar – Morogoro, World Bank Tanzania.
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Building Radical Collaborations for Just, Climate-Resilient Futures
Organizer: YCL / IIED *this session is part of the Development & Climate Days
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Carousel Talks: Latest Developments in the Science and Technology for Early Warning Early Action – Student Edition
Organizer: Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre
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Social Protection for addressing Climate Risks: What are the Linkages?
Organizer: Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre
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Humanitarian Assistance & Disaster Relief (HADR) in ASEAN – Experience of the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF)
Organizer: Singapore Civil Defense Force
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Using ‘Adaptation Technologies’ to Improve Policy and Planning at National Level
Organizer: Practical Action / IIED *this session is part of the Development & Climate Days
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Biodiversity Loss is an Underestimated Risk: Climate, Development and Business Perspective
Organizer: IIED *this session is part of the Development & Climate Days
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Managing Risk through Nature-based Solutions
Organizer: IIED *this session is part of the Development & Climate Days
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From Principles to Action: Enabling Locally Led Adaptation
Organizer: WRI / Global Commission on Adaptation *this session is part of the Development & Climate Days
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Expert Collaboration to Support Disaster Risk Financing: Developing New Models and Views of Risk
Organizer: AIR Worldwide
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Who’s Missing Information? Towards Inclusive Risk Communication
Organizer: The World Bank South Asia Climate and Disaster Risk Management Unit, Social Development Unit, & GFDRR Labs team; Ministry of Public Administration and Disaster Management, Sri Lanka; Google; California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services; and City of New Orleans
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Developing a Policy Framework for Investment in Disaster Risk Resilience – an Economic and Social Cost Approach
Organizer: Deloitte Access Economics
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Breaking the Silos: From Single to Comprehensive Multi-hazard Risk Frameworks
Organizer: Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University Amsterdam; Philippines Red Cross, German Red Cross and 510, an initiative of the Netherlands Red Cross; Deltares; Marsh & McLennan Advantage, Singapore; UN MGCY
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Understanding Nature and Risk: Modelling of Nature-based Solutions for Flood Risk Reduction and Analytics
Organizer: JBA Consulting
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From Darkness to Illumination: Climate Grief and Resilience in a Sea of Warnings
Organizer: Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt
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A Planet Remade? How Solar Geoengineering may Deliberately Change (y)our Climate – and How we Understand Risk
Organizer: Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre
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Heatwaves in an Urbanising World: Exposing the Silent Killer
Organizer: Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre
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Risk-informed Development Planning in Bangladesh
Organizer:  National Resilience Programme (Programming Division Part), Bangladesh Planning Commission
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Forming Radical Collaborations to Address Climate and Disaster Risk: The Understanding Risk Field Lab
Organizer: Co-Risk Labs, Earth Observatory of Singapore, Arup, University of Toronto
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Disaster Risk Reduction in Rohingya Camps in Bangladesh: Enacting a Relational Model of Risk Communication
Organizer: New York University; Bangladesh Cyclone Preparedness Programme (CPP); UN Women, Bangladesh Red Crescent/American Red Cross/IFRC in Bangladesh; Bangladesh Disaster Preparedness Centre; The World Bank
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What is a Flood? Risk Perceptions and Decisions
Organizer: World Bank (Urban Floods Community of Practice), NUS Lloyd’s Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk, NUS Deltares
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Landslides: the Next Frontier of Hazard Early Warning
Organizer: Met Office, other
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RiskChanges: An Open Source Tool for Multi-hazard Risk Assessment and Decision Making
Organizer: Geoinformatics Center, Asian Institute of Technology – ITC, University of Twente
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How Disaster Risk Data is Driving Public Investment in Haiti
Organizer: CKIC + IDRC +GIZ
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ShakeMap‐Related Research, Development, Operations, and Applications
Organizer: U.S. Geological Survey
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Tsunami of New Dreams: Filming survival
Organizer: art-science-media.com, ICAIOS International Centre for Aceh and Indian Ocean Studies, Prince Sultan University
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Pathways to Disaster Resilient Infrastructure
Organizer: RMSI
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We need Champions to Understand Disaster Risk
Organizer: GEO-Geohazard Supersites and Natural Laboratories initiative GEO-GSNL; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia – INGV, Centro Internazionale in Monitoraggio Ambientale – CIMA, Goma Volcano Observatory, Iceland Civil Protection, United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security – UNU-EHS / Eurac Research
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Launch of the Global Model for Earthquake Social Vulnerability and Resilience
Organizer: Global Earthquake Model (GEM)
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Access the Past and Foretell the Future: Peering into the Crystal Ball of Early Action
Organizer: NASA and IFRC
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So What if You Have Data? Conversations with Humanitarian Decision-makers on User-centric Design and Data-driven Approaches to Flood Risk Reduction
Organizer: United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Cloud to Street, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, and International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) – Columbia University
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Geo-powering Cities for Resilience
Organizer: World Bank’s City Planning Labs
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How to Construct an Inclusive City Weather and Early Warning System
Organizer: Resurgence
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The Development Impact of Open Risk Analytics
Organizer: Risk Modelling Group of the Insurance Development Forum InsuResilience Secretariat
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Implementing Real-time Disaster Risk Models: Collaborations Across Government, Non-profits, Academia and Private Sector in Mozambique and the Bahamas
Organizer: Direct Relief, Facebook Data for Good, Pacific Disaster Center, Harvard School of Public Health
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Putting Resilience in Place: Learn to Apply Cloud AI Disruptive Geospatial Technologies People will Use for Decision Making
Organizer: Mapbox, Microsoft AI for Good, Planet, World Bank
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Extreme Wildfire Development: Why, Where and When?
Organizer: FM Global
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SSTL x The World Bank HADR Challenge Pitching Session
Organizer: Singapore Space and Technology Limited (SSTL), Southeast Asia Disaster Risk Insurance Facility (SEADRIF)
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Building Urban Resilience in Southern Africa: Dialogue of Mayors and City Leaders
Organizer: World Bank, SADC, DIMSUR
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Drawing a Regional Picture of Hydromet and Early Warning Services in Africa
Organizer: World Bank, ECCAS, ECOWAS, IGAD, SADC
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Doing Drainage Differently: Tackling Urban Flooding in the Future Mega-city of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Organizer: World Bank
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Monitoring Compound Risks in the Covid-19 Era
Organizer: World Bank Group (WBG); United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA); United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO); Centre for Disaster Protection (CDP)
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Virtual Reality and the Future of Training for Emergency Responders in a Post-COVID-19 Era
Organizer: Singapore Civil Defense Force
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Launching A Time Capsule for our Future Ancestors
Organizer: Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre *this session is part of the Development & Climate Days
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Towards Proactive Disaster Risk Management: Benefits and Challenges in Linking Early Warning with Risk Financing
Organizer: InsuResilience Secretariat / Anticipation Hub (German Red Cross, IFRC, Climate Centre)
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Recalibrating Approaches Towards Urban Resilience Investments: System Thinking and Prioritization Methods for Decision Making
Organizer: The World Bank
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The Power of Grassroots Voices to Shape Effective Climate Policy
Organizer: Huairou Commission + SlumDwellers International / IIED *this session is part of the Development & Climate Days
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Global Risk Narratives and Communications: Strategy, Tools, and Cultural Considerations
Organizer: Lloyd’s Register Foundation, National University of Singapore
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Future/ Risk/ Tick √: Future Climate Projections Show us a Possible Future. Do Early Actions, Which Help People Now, also Prepare People for the Future Impacts of Climate Change?
Organizer: Lloyd’s Register Foundation, National University of Singapore
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European Commission MISSION on Adaptation to Climate Change with Societal Transformation
Organizer: Public Health England
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Catalyzing Inclusive Risk Finance in LAC: Opportunities for Innovation in Guatemala and the Caribbean
Organizer: World Food Programme (WFP)
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Mapathons, Movement Data, Machine-Learning – Oh My! A ‘Jam Session’ on Geospatial Data Innovations and How to Use Them
Organizer: Mapbox, MIT Urban Risk Lab, Youth Innovation Lab Nepal, Thinking Machines, First Street Foundation
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DAT/Artathon: Turning Risk Data into Visual Art
Organizer: University of New Mexico, Stanford Urban Resilience Initiative, Earth Observatory of Singapore
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Covid-19 and Risk Management: Lessons Learned in Costa Rica to Face the Next Crisis
Organizer: ARX Consultores
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Satellite EO for DRR in International Development Cooperation
Organizer: ESA
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UNDRR / ISC Sendai Hazard Definition and Classification Review
Organizer: Public Health England, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and International Science Council (ISC)
Partner Organizations: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and International Science Council (ISC)
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