AMBASSADOR RYTIS PAULAUSKAS ATTEND INTERNATIONAL DISASTER AND RISK CONFERENCE IDRC DAVOS 2012
The Permanent Representative of Lithuania to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations, H.E. Ambassador Rytis Paulauskas, attended the 4th International Disaster and Risk Conference (IDRC) in Davos, 2012. The topic of the conference this year was "Integrative Risk Management in a Changing World - Pathways to a Resilient Society".
Today’s societies are faced with numerous interconnected, complex and emerging risks. Environmental, technical, social and economic risks which are often closely linked and can result in successive impact on human beings and collective societies. The conference featured a broad scope of topics and exceptionally explored risks and hazards such as natural hazards, failures of critical infrastructure and ervices, pandemics, acts of terrorism and financial crises.
Participants of IDRC include risk management experts, practitioners, scientists, key players from civil society, Non-Governmental Organisations and the private sector. The diversity of participants enables both a strategic and operational level of discussion to ensure a valuable platform for the world’s risk and disaster management community.
IDRC Davos 2012 helps bridge the gap in problem solving between the causes of problems governance, and technology.
