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4th International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure

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    10Pointer
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    Environment
  • Published
    6th May, 2022

Context

Recently, Prime Minister addressed the inaugural session of the fourth edition of the International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (ICDRI).

What is ICDRI?

  • The International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (ICDRI) is an annual international conference and platform to continue building an engaged global community for disaster and climate resilient infrastructure.
  • The conference is organised by the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI).
  • It brings together stakeholders from partner countries representing national disaster risk management agencies, key infrastructure sectors, private sector and many multilateral institutions.
  • The Conference provides an opportunity to address issues around infrastructure transitions, risk governance and finance, and putting people at the centre of building resilient infrastructure.

About CDRI

  • CDRI is a multi-stakeholder global partnership of national governments, UN agencies and programmes, multilateral development banks, the private sector, academic and knowledge institutions.
  • It is led and managed by national governments, where knowledge is generated and exchanged on different aspects of disaster resilience of infrastructure.
  • Aim: To promote the resilience of new and existing infrastructure systems to climate and disaster risks in support of sustainable development.
  • CDRI promotes rapid development of resilient infrastructure to respond to the Sustainable Development Goals’.
  • The CDRI Secretariat is based in New Delhi, India.
  • The Formation of CDRI was on September 23, 2019.
  • As of March 2021, 29 members, consisting of 22 national governments and 7 organizations have joined CDRI.

CDRI India

  • CDRI was first proposed by our Prime Minister during the 2016 Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction held in New Delhi.
  • CDRI was then approved in 2019 for which the Government of India also pledged financial support of ?480 crore towards the CDRI corpus.

Need for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure

  • The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) highlights the role of improved disaster resilience of infrastructure as a cornerstone for sustainable development.
  • The SFDRR includes four specific targets related to loss reduction:
    • Reduce global disaster mortality.
    • Reduce the number of affected people.
    • Reduce direct disaster economic loss.
    • Reduce disaster damage to critical infrastructure.
      • Target (4) on infrastructure is an important prerequisite to achieving the other loss reduction targets set out in the framework.

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