International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) 18:00-18:30 Topic: The Red Cross Red Crescent’s contribution to the HFA. Speaker: IFRC and Japanese Red Cross President Tadateru Konoé Japanese Translation: Yes World Meteorological Organization, 15:30-16:00 Topic: Saving lives through enhanced early warning systems Speakers: Michel Jarraud, WMO Secretary-General; Loren Legarda, Senator, The Philippines; Thomas Silberhorn, Deputy Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany; Xu Tang, WMO Director, Weather and Disaster Services Material related to the above press conferences is available in the WCDRR Conference Box: wcdrrbag.info __________________________________________________________________________________ Video Footage & Photos UN Webcast services offer live and on-demand coverage of the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction on UN Web TV () in English, Japanese and the speaker’s original language. The Webcast coverage includes the Opening and Closing Ceremony, Official Statements, High-Level Partnership Dialogue sessions, Ministerial Roundtable sessions and Press Conferences. The direct link to the webcast archived videos is: Rights-free photos and ceremony video footage are available to Media at the Conference Center at (Username: admin; Password: wcdrr3rd!). Photos should be credited to UNISDR, and videos to UN Web TV. Requests for copies of any other video footage should be made in person at the UNISDR Office in the Media Center (Shirakashi Room 1). A Japanese version of this advisory will be released later.
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) 18:00-18:30 Topic: The Red Cross Red Crescent’s contribution to the HFA. Speaker: IFRC and Japanese Red Cross President Tadateru Konoé Japanese Translation: Yes World Meteorological Organization, 15:30-16:00 Topic: Saving lives through enhanced early warning systems Speakers: Michel Jarraud, WMO Secretary-General; Loren Legarda, Senator, The Philippines; Thomas Silberhorn, Deputy Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany; Xu Tang, WMO Director, Weather and Disaster Services Material related to the above press conferences is available in the WCDRR Conference Box: wcdrrbag.info __________________________________________________________________________________ Video Footage & Photos UN Webcast services offer live and on-demand coverage of the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction on UN Web TV () in English, Japanese and the speaker’s original language. The Webcast coverage includes the Opening and Closing Ceremony, Official Statements, High-Level Partnership Dialogue sessions, Ministerial Roundtable sessions and Press Conferences. The direct link to the webcast archived videos is: Rights-free photos and ceremony video footage are available to Media at the Conference Center at (Username: admin; Password: wcdrr3rd!). Photos should be credited to UNISDR, and videos to UN Web TV. Requests for copies of any other video footage should be made in person at the UNISDR Office in the Media Center (Shirakashi Room 1). A Japanese version of this advisory will be released later.
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