A Framework for Global Science in Support of Risk-informed Sustainable Development and Planetary Health

Prepared by the DRR Research Agenda Core Group; sponsored by the Integrated
Research for Disaster Risk programme, International Science Council and the United
Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

“The emerging global risk landscape of a pandemic, dramatic changes to climate and biodiversity, social
and financial crises, severe degradation of the environment and ecosystem services, digitalization and
hyperconnectivity, inequalities and vulnerabilities poses new challenges for disaster risk reduction (DRR) and
its associated areas of climate change adaptation and risk reduction through the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs).
The trend is for more severe and complex impacts with increasing global concern about
and acknowledgement of systemic, compound and cascading risks and impacts. Rapid political, social and
technological developments in addition to planetary change are contributing to this shifting landscape. The
risks seem existential, posing a threat to many communities and livelihoods and, ultimately, to humanity’s
existence“

https://council.science/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/DRR_GlobalScience-Framework-FINAL.pdf