The International Symposium on Integrated Governance of Large-scale Disaster and Economic Risks, was held on 13-14 May 2017 in Qianhai, Shenzhen, China. This symposium was co-sponsored by 1) Beijing Normal University, 2) Qianhai Shenzhen-Hongkong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone of Shenzhen and 3) Global Risk Forum, GRF-Davos. A declaration called Qianhai Consensus was delivered after the symposium.
The International Symposium on Integrated Governance of Large-scale Disaster and Economic Risks, organized by Beijing Normal University, Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone and Global Risk Forum GRF Davos, opened at Wuzhou Guest House on May 13-14, 2017.
The event was attended by more than 100 top experts and scholars worldwide, including Robert Glasser, special representative of the U.N. secretary general for disaster risk reduction, Michael Havbro Nielsen, representative of GRF Davos.
In the opening speech delivered by Professor Nielsen, he expressed the belief that the symposium would serve as a great platform for people to exchange views on the governance of risks.
His speech was followed by a signing ceremony of a Cooperation Framework Agreement by the Authority of Qianhai, the Foundation of Global Forum Davos and Beijing Normal University (ICSU Future Earth-Integrated Risk Governance Project), which stipulates that the international symposium on integrated governance of risks be held every two years by Qianhai and GRF Davos starting in 2019.
In the plenary session of the symposium, experts and scholars from home and abroad shared their new thinking on green development and response to large-scale disasters and risks. A declaration called Qianhai Consensus was delivered after the symposium [Download].The two-day symposium also included thematic sessions and panel discussions. Prof. Rajib Shaw, on behalf of IRDR, was the chair of Thematic Session V Assessment of Natural Disaster Risk on "The Belt and Road". Through panel discussion, key points for risk assessment along Belt and Road were stressed as following:
1) Need to have a balanced approach of demand driven and interest driven risk assessment. 2) Physical, social, economic issues need to be linked for risk assessment, and it needs to be multi-hazard. 3) It is important to strengthen the national and local capacities of risk assessment, and link it to SFDRR indicators, and national platform. 4) In Belt and Road initiative, it is important to link to the existing science programs of ICSU, like IRDR, WCRP, Future Earth etc.
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