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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

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trillion in global economic losses,” according to a report conducted by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). Disaster risk is becoming systemic with one event overlapping and influencing another in ways that are testing our resilience to the limit,” Mizutori said. million lives, affecting 4.2

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B.C.’s New Bill 31 – Emergency and Disaster Management Act

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A deliberate focus on modernization first emerged five years ago in 2018, when the Province adopted the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. Since then, the Province has been continually responding to large-scale disasters, including the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 2021 and 2023 floods and wildfires. In 2019, B.C.