As the third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction slowly comes to a close in the Japanese city of Sendai, hopes are high that leaders from all corners of the world will come up with an ambitious global response framework to succeed the 2005 Hyogo Framework for Action.
And this time around, both developed and developing countries are not afraid to face the music.
“There is very strong consensus here that unless we really put disaster risk and resilience at the heart of how we think about and carry out development, we are simply not going to achieve the goals that we want for ourselves as an international community,” Rachel Kyte, vice president and special envoy for climate change at the World Bank, told Devex in an exclusive interview.