Also on 20 September, the Director-General received the President of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism and his delegation, with whom she had fruitful exchanges on future collaboration with UNESCO on post-disaster activities.

UNESCO: Post-Conflict and Post-Disaster Responses

In retrospect, Casaburi thinks the organization did well with pre-disaster planning activities, but has learned some lessons that will affect future operations.

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In addition, the programme explicitly includes disaster risk reduction in its activities and tools.

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The main objective of the session is to formulate an action plan for building the resilience of nations and community by strengthening regional activities and capacity in landslide disaster risk reduction.

UNESCO: Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation

Cogan added that while federal disaster aid had been provided in the case of terrorist activities such as the World Trade Center bombing, he knew of no case where such aid had been sent out in connection with a plane crash.

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Congress and the regulators have shown the major financial firms more clearly even than before that greed and high risk activities carry no risk for them, that if they lead to disaster the calamity will fall on others, while the financial firms will be rescued and probably even rewarded, coming out the other side bigger and more profitable than ever.

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