5th International Conference On Disaster Resilient Infrastructure:
The latest conference, the 5th International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (ICDRI) 2023, was held on 4th and 5th of April 2023 in New Delhi, India.
- It is the annual conference of the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) and its partners.
- International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure 2023 hosted by India.
- The Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) is a multi-stakeholder global partnership of national governments, UN (United Nations) agencies and programmes, multilateral development banks and financing mechanisms, the private sector, and knowledge institutions.]
- The Prime Minister of India launched CDRI during his speech at the UN Climate Action Summit in 2019.
- It aims to promote the resilience of new and existing infrastructure systems to climate and disaster risks in support of sustainable development.
- Members: 30 countries and 8 organizations.
- The CDRI Secretariat is based in New Delhi, India.
- It brings together member Countries, organizations, institutions and infrastructure actors and stakeholders to strengthen the global discourse on disaster and climate-resilient infrastructure.
- The ICDRI 2023 will focus on charting these solutions and pathways to Shaping Resilient Infrastructure.
- It aims at delving into practices of creating risk-informed systems, resilient infrastructure assets and innovative financing to deliver infrastructure needs.
- The conference will feature the progress of the Biennial Report on Global Infrastructure Resilience, the collaborative delivery mechanism of IRIS with SIDS, and the operationalization of IRAF.
