Brackets protect China ' s Forbidden City from earthquakes
2016 – Target ( a ): Substantially reduce global disaster mortality by 2030 , aiming to lower the average per 100,000 global mortality rate in the decade 2020-2030 compared to the period 2005- 2015 ;
2017 – Target ( b ): Substantially reduce the number of people affected globally by 2030 , aiming to lower the average global figure per 100,000 in the decade 2020-2030 compared to the period 2005- 2015 ;
2018 – Target ( c ): Reduce direct disaster economic loss in relation to global gross domestic product by 2030 ;
2019 – Target ( d ): Substantially reduce disaster damage to critical infrastructure and disruption of basic services , among them health and educational facilities , including through developing their resilience by 2030 ;
2020 – Target ( e ): Substantially increase the number of countries with national and local disaster risk reduction strategies by 2020 ;
2021 – Target ( f ): Substantially enhance international co-operation to developing countries through adequate and sustainable support to complement their national actions for implementation of the present Framework by 2030 ;
2022 – Target ( g ): Substantially increase the availability of and access to multi-hazard early warning systems and disaster risk information and assessments to people by 2030 .
What Japan ’ s Disaster Proofing Strategies can teach the world - Marika Katanuma
Japan ’ s infrastructure is already one of the world ’ s safest , and investment in risk management is ramping up .
Planning for natural disasters is a serious business . For good reason . Over the past decade , the island nation has weathered about 20 % of the world ’ s “ strong ” earthquakes ( magnitude six or greater ) as well as multiple tropical storms a year . The worst of these events can be utterly devastating . The 2011 Tohoku earthquake , which triggered a massive tsunami and a meltdown at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant , killed more than 15,000 people . And climate change is
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