The UN Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) is the flagship report of the United Nations on worldwide efforts to reduce disaster risk. It is published biennially by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and is the product of the contributions of nations, public and private disaster risk-related science and research, among others.
The report offers valuable recommendations to reduce risk and increase resilience. It also details how innovations in systemic risk modeling offer a promising mechanism to better anticipate and respond to risk.
To accelerate essential risk reduction and resilience building, the report calls on policy-makers to design systems to factor in how human minds make decisions about risk, and reconfigure governance and financial systems to work across silos and design in consultation with affected people.