What role can business play in dealing with disasters?

02/24/2015. In a world where links between countries are bigger and faster than ever, disasters that once might have only had local effects now increasingly have international ramifications, affecting multiple countries, economies, sectors and social systems.

The effects from the tsunami and meltdown of Japan’s Fukushima reactor, for example, had devastating local consequences, but also impacted communities and economies thousands of miles away. In such an interconnected world, with impacts that touch upon all of society, locally and internationally, we need an “all-of-society” and “all-of-the-world” approach.

Read the article on the World Economic Forum website


Related Articles

A Cuban model for a resilient Caribbean

02/25/2015. With a population of 36 million, the Caribbean region is home to a diverse array of languages and cultures… But for all its diversity, its countries and territories share an important trait – exposure to a yearly hurricane season that can, at times, have devastating impacts.

Climate change at the centre of new global IFRC strategy

12/05/2019. “The message couldn’t be clearer: climate change is an existential threat that is already completely altering the work we do”

Seven things you need to know about climate change and conflict

Article published on ICRC website on 07/09/2020 A new ICRC report, When rain turns to dust, explores how countries enduring