17th April 2018
EP Desk

   Countries in Asia and the Pacific must build resilience to natural hazards and invest in social protection systems if the region is to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, according to a joint report of ESCAP and UNDP.

 

The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the UN Development Program (UNDP) launched the report recently at a forum in Bangkok, said a media release.

 

The report, titled ‘Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies in Asia and the Pacific,’ has highlighted that to build resilience against recurrent shocks such as flooding, pollution, and commodity price volatility, societies need to focus on four types of resilience capacities-anticipatory, absorptive, adaptive, and transformative.

 

The report said that many countries are already beginning to build resilience capacities against various shocks through, for example, setting up early warning systems to anticipate natural disasters, mainstreaming climate change in national planning, and investing in social protection systems to promote income and health security.


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