On October 20, the 2020 Global Natural Disaster Assessment Report (English version) jointly prepared by BNU Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management Ministry of Emergency Management & Ministry of Education, the National Disaster Reduction Center of the emergency management department, and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies was officially released through PreventionWeb of the United Nations Office for disaster reduction.

The report includes general report and special report. The general report outlines the general situation, characteristics and pattern of global natural disasters in 2020 and the global position of natural disasters in China; The special report focuses on the overview of natural disasters in China in 2020, new findings in the analysis of global flood disaster data and flood cases in China in 2020. The assessment report shows that compared with the average value of the past 30 years (1990 ‒ 2019), the global natural disasters in 2020 generally show a low level, with 4% less frequency, 73% less dead population, 50% less affected population and 29% more direct economic losses.

The assessment report was led and organized by Professor Yang Saini of School of National Safety and Emergency Management of BNU, BNU Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management Ministry of Emergency Management & Ministry of Education and the State Key Laboratory of surface process and resource ecology. With the participation of many parties, it comprehensively utilized the global disaster database (Chinese version), foreign disaster data, China's disaster situation data and so on. It has also received the support of relevant industry departments, international institutions, domestic social organizations, universities and research institutes. The report will play a positive role in improving China's disaster risk management system, providing authoritative global natural disaster data for countries all over the world, and better promoting international disaster prevention and reduction.

Please visit the website for the full English version of 2020 global natural disaster assessment report：

https://www.preventionweb.net/publication/2020-global-natural-disaster-assessment-report