Implementation of the ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015–2025 for global promotion of understanding and reducing landslide disaster risk

Abstract

The ISDR-ICL SENDAI Partnerships 2015–2025 The International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) was founded on 21 January 2002 in Kyoto, Japan. The ICL proposed a thematic session on landslides to take place at the Second United Nations World Congress on Disaster Reduction (WCDR), Kobe, Japan in 2005. Based on the outcome of this session Letter of Intent 2005, the 2006 Tokyo Action Plan—strengthening research and learning on landslide and related earth system disasters for global risk preparedness was adopted at the United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan (Sassa 2006). The Tokyo Action Plan proposed the World Landslide Forum (WLF) held every 3 years, the identification of World Centres of Excellence on Landslide Risk Reduction (WCoE) at each World Landslide Forum, and the establishment of the IPL Global Promotion Committee (IPL-GPC) to manage the International Programme on Landslides (IPL), a programme of the ICL for ISDR. ICL organized a 10th Anniversary Conference on 17–20 January 2012 in Kyoto when the ICL Strategic plan 2012– 2021—To create a safer geoenvironment was adopted (Sassa 2012). At this conference, ICL examined the 2014 Beijing Declaration to be adopted by the World Landslide Forum 3 in Beijing, China, in 2014 and the draft of ICL-IPL Sendai Partnerships 2015–2025 to be proposed in Sendai, Japan, in March 2015. A high-level panel discussion Initiative to create a safer geoenvironment toward WCDRR 2015 and forward was held at the Third World Landslide Forum in Beijing, 2014. Figure 1 is a group photo after the panel discussion including the Director-General of UNESCO Ms. Irina Bokova.