Sendai meeting is key chance to build Asia’s disaster resilience - Opinion
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Jakarta Post, the
Bindu N. Lohani, in an opinion piece on the Jakarta Post, writes that the meeting in Sendai, Japan presents world leaders perhaps one of the biggest opportunities to build the infrastructure and other defenses the world needs to withstand the worst ravages of typhoons, earthquakes, droughts and other disasters.
In his opinion, this requires visionary leadership, learning lessons from others and integrating disaster risk considerations into all investment decisions in hazard-prone areas, and is a message that needs to be conveyed clearly when presidents, prime ministers and other experts gather in Paris in November to agree on a climate agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol.