UNDRR & ARISE Japan joint symposium 2026 showcases how Japanese private sector and multistakeholder partners advance investment in resilience and translate science into practical action

Country: Japan Source: UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction UNDRR and ARISE Japan marked the 15th year after the Great East Japan Earthquake by hosting a joint symposium titled “UNDRR & ARISE Japan joint symposium 2026: Strengthening disaster risk reduction by advancing investment in resilience and translating science into Practical Action”. The event brought Mr. Kamal Kishore, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, and Head of UNDRR, together with Japanese DRR experts from the private, public, and academia sectors in Tokyo on 10 March 2026 for an intensive three-hour discussion. Under the expert overall moderation by Ms. Yuki Matsuoka from UNDRR, Mr. Masato Takamatsu, ARISE Japan Lead, opened the symposium by welcoming the over 100 in-person participants in the room. “The case studies you will hear today, particularly in the second session, are previews of an upcoming publication prepared by ARISE Japan to contribute to APMCDRR in 2027, which will take place in Sendai city, Japan” he noted. The first session of the symposium opened with remarks from Mr. Kamal Kishore, who said “Building societal resilience cannot be done only by the governments, and it is the private sector that galvanizes human creativity to create conditions for human flourishing. Japan leads the way in how the private sector provides services, products and systems that very directly to disaster risk reduction, how to make it available in an affordable way across the world. And he expressed his expectation to Japan to infuse their sense of energy and camaraderie in the private sector everywhere. Following Mr. Kishore, Prof. Tomohito Yamada, Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, discussed a development of a disaster risk assessment framework utilizing climate change projections, which employs...

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