Kyoto 2020 Commitment for Global Promotion of Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk

Abstract

The Sendai Landslide Partnerships 2015–2025 was proposed and adopted as a voluntary commitment to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. The Partnerships was signed by 22 global stakeholders committing to contribute to landslide disaster risk reduction. Under the Partnerships, ICL published a full color open access book “ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015–2025” as Vol. 1 of Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides and two volumes of ISDR-ICL Interactive Landslide Teaching Tools. The Partnerships is effective for the promotion of landslide disaster risk reduction. However, it will be phased out by 2025. Landslide disaster risk reduction will remain a key necessity and become even more important after 2025 due to climate change and urban development. ICL and the partners of the Sendai Landslide Partnerships wish to develop this initiative further to 2025, 2030 and even beyond. Therefore, the Kyoto 2020 Commitment for Global Promotion of Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk (KLC2020) was developed. Partners of KLC2020 are called upon to attend the meeting of the joint signatories and the declaration of the launching of KLC 2020 in November 2020.KeywordsSendai landslide partnershipsSendai framework for disaster risk reductionSustainable development goalsParis climate agreementInteractive teaching tools