UN unveils new Global Risk Data Platform

The United Nations and its partners are presenting an innovative new portal for disaster risk-management data on 19 June. The launch will take place at the Second Session of the Global Platform on Disaster Reduction, which is being held in Geneva from 16 to 19 June.

Global Risk Data Platform map showing tropical cyclone footprint.

The Global Risk Data Platform portal provides mapping and graphical tools that allow the user to visualize, download or manipulate data on natural hazards, human and economic vulnerability, and risk. The user can perform zooms, pan to a particular area, and add different layers of general data, such as cities and national parks. Layers of natural hazards can be added for both events and yearly averages for tropical cyclones, droughts, earthquakes, biomass fires, floods, landslides and tsunamis. Different backgrounds can be chosen to highlight particular variables, such as population distribution, GDP per capita, elevation and land cover.

The Platform has been created and hosted by UNEP/GRID-Europe for the UNISDR partnership.

See:

http://www.grid.unep.ch/preview

or

http://preview.grid.unep.ch/index3.php?preview=map

for direct access