The adoption in 2018 of the Escazú Agreement by the countries of the Latin American and Caribbean region marks the second regional legal instrument aimed at the implementation of Principle 10 of the 1992 Rio Declaration, joining the Aarhus Convention of the pan-European region.
On 14 of October, to mark the International DRR Day, the Department's Environmental Systems Laboratory (Syslab) will organize a Missing Maps Mapathon, a crowdsourcing event that will help map the most vulnerable places in the developing world.
On 14 of October, the Department's Environmental Systems Laboratory (Syslab) will organize the Disaster Risk Reduction Day to increase risk-awareness and present how Geographic Information Systems and International Policies can help manage disasters.
