The ASEAN Secretariat attended the Asian Conference on Disaster Reduction (ACDR) held on 10-12 March in Sendai, Japan upon an invitation from the Disaster Management Bureau, Cabinet Office of Japan.
Under the theme WHAT IS NEXT? Learning from the Past, Preparing for the Future, this year’s conference discussed ways to enhance countermeasures for large scale disasters, disaster data management, and provision of early warning information via satellite.