Japan- PANAHON.TV, the Philippines’ only dedicated program on weather and traffic, climate change and preparedness is covering the 3rd UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, Japan on March 14-18, 2015.

Located 300 kilometers north of Tokyo, Sendai was one of the hard hit areas of the March 11, 2011 Great East Asian Earthquake. Multi-sector experts will be attending the conference.

The key focus of the conference is the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. There will also be a series of public forums and study tours in Sendai.

United Nations’ Secretary- General UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will be meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe together with leaders attending the conference.

For more information on the conference, visit: http://www.wcdrr.org/home. The hashtag: #WCDRR will also be used for the conference.