Can we determine today, the potential loss of tomorrow and change our future?

Event Summary

Organization: GFDRR

Session Leads

• Dr. Alanna Simpson, Senior DRM Specialist and Labs Lead, GFDRR
• Kamal Kishore, Programme Adviser, Disaster Risk Reduction & Recovery Team, UNDP Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery

Speakers

• Dr. Andrew Jones, Regional Development Section Lead, Geoscience Australia
• David Lallemant, Graduate Fellow, Stanford University
• Fernando Ramirez, Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist, World Bank Group
• Axel Baeumler, Senior Urban Specialist, World Bank Group
• Khaled Abu Aisheh, Director Architecture, Planning and Disaster Risk Management, Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA), Jordan
• Ozlem Velioglu, Officer, AFAD, Turkey

Description

As a global practice we have made substantial progress in developing new approaches to understanding risk; from collection of new data to new approaches to modeling and communicating risk information. This progress has enabled decision makers from across the globe to embrace evidence-based decision making. However, we acknowledge that we do not adequately model and communicate future risk, so actions today can influence the future. Moreover, triggering action – either at policy or community level – through communication of risk information remains a universal challenge. This session will highlight experiences and innovations and will explore how to achieve a revolution in risk information where risk information is targeted, authoritative, trusted, robust, open, understandable and ultimately used to positively change our future.