2015 has the potential to mark a key milestone in the efforts to achieve agreements on emissions reductions and foster greater climate resilience – with several related policy processes culminating, offering a chance to integrate disaster risk reduction, climate change policy and poverty reduction more closely. At the same time there is a growing risk of further inaction if no political agreement can be found.
In March 2015, a new international blueprint for disaster risk reduction (DRR) has been adopted in Sendai, Japan, the nearest major city to the area devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, not far from the ill-fated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, at the end of the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction.
In a study recently published on Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS) a team of authors (among them, the CMCC researcher J. Mysyak) reviewed and discussed the agreed commitments and targets, as well as the negotiation leading to the Sendai Framework for DRR while discussing briefly its implication for the later UN-led negotiations on sustainable development goals and climate change.

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Mysiak J., Surminski S., Thieken A., Mechler R., Aerts J.
Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction – success or warning sign for Paris?
2015, Natural Hazards and Earth System Science, 3, 3955–3966, 201, DOI: 10.5194/nhessd-3-3955-2015