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We leave Sendai with a new global deal on disaster risk, but does it go far enough?

Posted on March 25, 2015 Written by Dr Emily Wilkinson, Research Fellow in the Climate and Environment Programme at the Overseas Development Institute. No one going into the Sendai negotiations this

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ODI and World Bank report finds that managing disaster risks can bring other benefits, even if catastrophe never strikes

Posted on⋅ March 16, 2015 Written by Thomas Tanner, Research Fellow at Overseas Development Institute This week, the UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, Japan kicks off

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Failure to link up with other global agreements in 2015 could spell disaster for Sendai deal

Posted on March 13, 2015 Written by Tom Mitchell, Head of the Climate and Environment programme at the Overseas Development Institute in London. Every ten years Japan plays host to the