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Converging disasters claim 3.72 lakh lives in Asia-Pac Disaster management and public health systems’ capacity to respond to new climate-health-disaster nexus will inform the recovery from Covid-19 and beyond, says Sanjay Srivastava, Chief, Disaster Risk Reduction, of the Bangkok-based UN-ESCAP.
The year that went by (2020) saw the South and South-West Asia sub-region ending up impacted worst by climate-related natural disasters, followed by South-East Asia, East and North East Asia, the Pacific, and North and Central Asia, Srivastava wrote to
BusinessLine in an email.
Brainstorming on the way forward
A Special High-Level Meeting on Disaster and Climate Resilience held in December saw ministers from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, and Pakistan make recommendations on the way forward to scale up regional cooperation and build back better with disaster and climate resilience in the post-Covid-19 era.