Environment

Environment & DRR

Ensuring environmental sustainability and integrating the principles of prevention, mitigation and preparedness into action of local communities and governments in response to disasters resulting from natural phenomena.

“Today we rescued 25 wounded people, which shows that we young people must be prepared for any emergency. Everything we learned here will help us a lot. They are things we can put into practice in schools, but also where we live. No matter the reward, we have the satisfaction of saying: ‘I saved a life’.”

Youth participants in the First Games to Disasters Preparedness, Ecuador, 2015