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Climate change is causing disasters such as wildfires, floods, and other extreme weather-related events to become both more intense and more frequent.
In a previous article, we looked at how to form IT disaster plans and business continuity strategies in the face of climate change, but this year’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction encourages a more high-level, inclusive approach to preparing for imminent global threats, focusing on inequality.
“Disasters and inequality are two sides of the same coin. Each adversity reinforces the other: unequal access to services leaves the most vulnerable exposed to the danger of disasters; while the effects of disasters exacerbate inequalities and push the most at risk further into poverty.”
For example, “weather-related disasters forcibly displaced a staggering 43.1 million children across 44 countries over the past six years,” Unicef reports.
“Since most countries at high risk of disasters are also among those with the highest share of the population living under the national poverty line, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) encourages people to take action to break the cycle of disaster and growing inequality.”
In accordance with this theme, UN Secretary-General António Guterres says: “Countries must work to break the cycle of poverty and disaster by honoring the Paris Agreement, striving to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, and implementing the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.”
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