Source: UNISDR Disaster Risk Reduction
This Issue Brief highlights how risk reduction can help to make critical shifts to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals and beyond: from short-term reactive responses and to long-term resilience pathways, and from siloed approaches to systems thinking and systems change. It highlights risk reduction opportunities across food systems, education, jobs and social protection, digital systems, energy systems, and nature and climate change.
The Issue Brief also highlights the importance of enablers such as multidimensional risk assessment, integrated and inclusive risk governance, adaptive management and learning, and risk-informed financing for SDGs. It was developed by UNDRR with inputs from 18 UN entities under the UN DRR Focal Points Group, and informed by a call for good practices on risk-informed SDG transitions in December 2024.