UN disaster meeting to open in tsunami-hit Japan

March 14, 2015

Policymakers gather for a ten-yearly meeting on disaster risk reduction today, with hopes high that the conference in tsunami-hit Japan might provide a springboard for real and lasting efforts to tackle costly climate change.

The meeting will review what lessons have been learned since the last conference, which was held months after a quarter of a million people died in the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.