GS Paper 3:
Topics Covered: Disaster Management.
Context:
The Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has commenced the International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure 2022.
- Heads of states from CDRI member countries including India attended the conference.
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.
- CDRI is led and managed by national governments, where knowledge is generated and exchanged on different aspects of disaster resilience of infrastructure.
- The CDRI Secretariat is based in New Delhi, India.
- Formation: September 23, 2019.
- Members: As of March 2021, 29 members, consisting of 22 national governments and 7 organizations have joined CDRI.
International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure:
ICDRI is the annual international conference of the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) in partnership with member countries, organizations and institutions to strengthen the global discourse on disaster and climate resilient infrastructure.
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.
Insta Curious:
Did you know that Indian PM Modi officially launched the CDRI at the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit in New York on 23 September 2019? He termed it as a “practical approach and roadmap” towards climate change mitigation.
Sources: the Hindu.
