The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi on March 17, 2021 addressed the opening ceremony of International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure through video conference.
- The Prime Minister stressed that Countries that are making large investments in infrastructure, such as India, must ensure that this is an investment in resilience, and not in risk.
- Many infrastructure systems- digital infrastructure, shipping lines, aviation networks- cover the entire world and the effect of disaster in one part of the world can quickly spread across the world. Cooperation is a must for ensuring the resilience of the global system.
Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure
- The Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) is a partnership of national governments, UN agencies and programmes, multilateral development banks and financing mechanisms, the private sector, and knowledge institutions that aims to promote the resilience of new and existing infrastructure systems to climate and disaster risks in support of sustainable development.
- The Prime Minister of India has launched CDRI during his speech at the UN Climate Action Summit on 23 September 2019.
- The CDRI Secretariat is based in New Delhi, India.
