'2015 has been a formative year for climate change and disaster management efforts', writes Sohara Mehroze in an opinion piece in Huffington Post. 'The Sendai Framework for disaster risk reduction was adopted this year, and it culminates with COP 21 - which aims to attain a global climate agreement'.
"We agreed on 7 global targets [for disaster risk reduction] to be achieved by 2030 to reduce the impact of disasters. One of the targets is ready to be achieved by 2020," said Margarita Wahlstrom, Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for disaster risk reduction, referring to countries having national and local plans for disaster risk reduction.
Sohara Mehroze is a development professional from Bangladesh working in the field of Climate Change,Environment and Disaster Management