INFORM report 2024 launched

Since the end of the 1990s, many countries around the world began to implement the notion of disaster risk management as a paradigm shift to enable a shift from the existing and reactive disaster response efforts to a more proactive way of addressing the root causes of risks.  This new framework introduced the notion of risk as the set of pre-existing conditions that represented the predisposition of an asset, a livelihood, a community, a city, a province, or a country to be affected by a natural hazard.

spencer.zinke Mon, 25 Mar 2024 - 13:14
Annual Meeting of UN-SPIDER Regional Support Offices

On 15 March 2024, UN-SPIDER organized the annual meeting of its network of Regional Support Offices (RSOs) in the UN Campus in Bonn, Germany. The meeting was carried out back-to-back with the UN-SPIDER Bonn International Conference on Space-based Solutions for Disaster Management: Early Warnings for All, which many  focal points of the Regional Support Offices also attended. 

juan-carlos.vi… Tue, 19 Mar 2024 - 10:14
UN-SPIDER Regional Support Offices Meeting 2024

The Regional Support Offices Meeting 2024 was recently conducted by UN-SPIDER at UN Campus in Bonn. The meeting was conducted following the UN-SPIDER Bonn International Conference on Space-based Solutions for Disaster Management: Early Warnings for All, of which many of the Regional Support Office representatives also attended. 

spencer.zinke Mon, 18 Mar 2024 - 14:39
UN-SPIDER hosts International Conference on Space-based Solutions for Disaster Management: Early Warnings for All

From 12 to 14 March 2024, the UN-SPIDER programme of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) the Center for Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces (ZFL) of the University of Bonn joined forces to organise the UN-SPIDER Bonn International Conference on Space-based Solutions for Disaster Management - "Early Warnings for All".

spencer.zinke Tue, 12 Mar 2024 - 12:23
New UNOOSA/UN-SPIDER Publication: Space Technologies for Early Warning Systems

UN-SPIDER launched a new publication: “Space-based Technologies for Early Warning Systems” during its currently ongoing conference.

You can access the pdf version of the publication using this link.

martin.hilljegerdes Tue, 12 Mar 2024 - 10:39