Journalist:

Please share your expectations and ideas in view of bilateral cooperation on disaster control and emergency management between UN and China. We’d like to share your comments on BRIDRREM as well.

Coordinator:

The ongoing natural disasters are occurring exponentially. We see approximately 7 to 800 natural disasters per year across the world. In order to maintain the growth potential of countries, it has to be future proofed through climate resilience to build up the resilient capacity along with the infrastructure. In other words, we have to invest in the political to make sure that disaster risk reduction is integrated into the planning of all BRI projects-related the countries and make sure that there is a momentum around disaster risk reduction that has to be maintained.

We need the right public policies to ensure synchronicity between the BRI countries, between the entities and agencies that are working on it. The multi hazard frameworks and early warning systems should be duly set up otherwise these losses can be exponential. We build, we lose, we cannot afford to do that. But the third part of this is partnerships. Now no country can do it on its own. As we are seeing in Turkey and Syria, you have the united nations there, you have many countries there. We have two major rescue teams from China, lots of investments which are going in to support them. This has to take on a multilateral spirit. We need academics, we need think tanks, we need advisers, we need scientific communities, we need countries. Therefore, the platform for building and strengthening multilateralism become even more crucial.

Today it's clear disaster risk reduction is the order of the day. It is the only way that we could reduce potential losses that could come from the grave climate crisis, confronted with improving disasters.